HMS Ashanti (F51)

Ashanti departing Hvalfjörður, Iceland, 6 February 1942
History
United Kingdom
NameAshanti
NamesakeAshanti people
Ordered19 June 1936
BuilderWilliam Denny, Dumbarton
Cost£340,770
Laid down23 November 1936
Launched5 November 1937
Commissioned21 December 1938
IdentificationPennant 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
FateScrapped, 1949
General characteristics (as built)
Class and typeTribal-class destroyer
Displacement
Length377 ft (114.9 m) (o/a)
Beam36 ft 6 in (11.13 m)
Draught11 ft 3 in (3.43 m)
Installed power
Propulsion2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines
Speed36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range5,700 nmi (10,600 km; 6,600 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement190
Sensors and
processing systems
ASDIC
Armament

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.

  1. ^ "News in Brief: Ashanti Gifts to H.M.S. Ashanti". The Times. No. 48243. 2 March 1939. p. 13.