HMS Ashanti (F51)

Ashanti departing Hvalfjörður, Iceland, 6 February 1942
History
United Kingdom
Name	Ashanti
Namesake	Ashanti people
Ordered	19 June 1936
Builder	William Denny, Dumbarton
Cost	£340,770
Laid down	23 November 1936
Launched	5 November 1937
Commissioned	21 December 1938
Identification	Pennant numbers: L51, F51, G51
Motto	Kum Apim Beba (Ashanti: "Kill a thousand and a thousand will come")[1] Also: Wo kum apim a, apim bз ba
Honours and awards	8 battle honours
Fate	Scrapped, 1949
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	Tribal-class destroyer
Displacement	1,891 long tons (1,921 t) (standard) 2,519 long tons (2,559 t) (deep load)
Length	377 ft (114.9 m) (o/a)
Beam	36 ft 6 in (11.13 m)
Draught	11 ft 3 in (3.43 m)
Installed power	3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers 44,000 shp (33,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range	5,700 nmi (10,600 km; 6,600 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	190
Sensors and processing systems	ASDIC
Armament	4 × twin 4.7 in (120 mm) guns 1 × quadruple 2-pdr (40 mm (1.6 in)) AA guns 2 × quadruple 0.5 in (12.7 mm) anti-aircraft machineguns 1 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 20 × depth charges, 1 × rack, 2 × throwers

HMS Ashanti was a Tribal-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Following the style of her sister ships she was named for an ethnic group, in this case the Ashanti people of the Gold Coast in West Africa. She served in the Second World War and was broken up in 1949. She was the first of two Royal Navy ships to bear the name Ashanti.