HMS Active (H14)
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Active (H14) |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Launched: | 1937 |
| Decommissioned: | 1947 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | A class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,350 tons standard 1,773 tons full load |
| Length: | 98.40 metres (323 ft) |
| Beam: | 9.83 metres (32 ft) |
| Draught: | 3.73 metres (12 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 3 × Thornycroft oil-fired boilers >35,500 hp |
| Speed: | 35.25 knots (65.3 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,800 nm at 15 knots |
| Complement: | 138 |
| Armament: | 4 × 4.7 in guns (4×1) 2 × 2 pounder AA guns (2×1) 8 × 21 inch torpedo tubes (2×4) |
HMS Active, the tenth Active (H14), launched in 1929, was an A class destroyer. She served in World War II, taking part in the sinking of four submarines. She was broken up in 1947.
She was launched 9 July 1929 as part of the first class of destroyers after World War I, at Hawthorn Leslie in Hebburn, Newcastle upon Tyne. She was commissioned 9 February 1930 as part of the third destroyer flotilla and part of the Mediterreanean Fleet. At the beginning of WW II she joined the 13th Flotilla based in Gibraltar and later Force H. As such she took part in the Operation Catapult against the French fleet in Mers el Kebir.
In May 1941 the ship participated in the hunt for the battleship Bismark.
1942 she participated in the Madagascar landings (Operation Ironclad) during which on May 8 she sank the Vichy French submarine Monge. Later while being based in Capetown on October 8 she sank the German U-179 during its march to Penang war.
During the rest of the war the ship served as escort mainly between Great Britain and Sierra Leone after receiving increased anti aircraft and anti submarine armament. On 23 May 1943 she sank the Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci west of Cape Finisterre together with HMS Ness and on 2 November 1943 U-340 close to Tanger.
In May 1947 HMS Active was decommissioned and sold for scrap.
[edit] Literature
- M. J. Whitley: Destroyers of World War Two, Arms and Armour Press, London 1988 ISBN 0853689105
[edit] External links
- Chronik Seekrieg 1939-1945 (German)
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