HMS Ambuscade (D38)
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.jpg) HMS Ambuscade |
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| Career |  |
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| Launched: | 15 January 1926 |
| Fate: | broken up in 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,192 tons |
| Length: | 323 ft (98 m) |
| Propulsion: | geared turbines, 2 shafts, 35,500 hp (26.47 MW) |
| Speed: | 37 knots (69 km/h) |
| Complement: | 138 |
| Armament: |
four BL 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns |
HMS Ambuscade (D38) was a British Royal Navy destroyer which served in the Second World War. She and her Thornycroft competitor, Amazon, were prototypes designed to exploit advances in construction and machinery since World War I and formed the basis of Royal Navy destroyer evolution up to the Tribal class of 1936.
She was launched at Yarrow on 15 January 1926, served in World War II, and was broken up at Troon in 1946.
[edit] References
- Winser, John de D. (1999). B.E.F. Ships Before, At and After Dunkirk. Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society. ISBN 0-905617-91-6.
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