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History | |
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Name | HMS Active |
Builder | Hawthorn Leslie & Company, Hebburn[1] |
Yard number | 557 |
Laid down | 10 July 1928 |
Launched | 9 July 1929 |
Completed | 9 Jan 1930 |
Commissioned | 9 Feb 1930 |
Decommissioned | 20 May 1947 |
Identification | Pennant number: H14 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 1947 |
General characteristics (as built) | |
Class and type | A-class destroyer |
Displacement | |
Length | 323 ft (98 m) (o/a) |
Beam | 32 ft 3 in (9.83 m) |
Draught | 12 ft 3 in (3.73 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines |
Speed | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
Range | 4,800 nmi (8,900 km; 5,500 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 134; 140 (1940) |
Armament |
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HMS Active, the tenth Active, launched in 1929, was an A-class destroyer. She served in the Second World War, taking part in the sinking of four submarines. She was broken up in 1947.