HMS Active (H14)
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Active in 1944
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| Name: | HMS Active |
| Builder: | Hawthorn Leslie & Company, Hebburn |
| 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 |
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| Length: | 323 ft (98 m) (o/a) |
| Beam: | 32 ft 3 in (9.83 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft 3 in (3.73 m) |
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| Propulsion: | 2 × shafts; 2 × geared steam turbines |
| Speed: | 35 knots (65 km/h; 40 mph) |
| Range: | 4,080 nmi (7,560 km; 4,700 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 138 |
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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.
Active was ordered on 6 March 1928 as a part of the first class of destroyers for the Royal Navy to be built after the First World War. The ship was laid down on 10 July 1928 at Hawthorn Leslie in Hebburn, Newcastle upon Tyne, was launched on 9 July 1929 and commissioned on 9 February 1930 with the pennant number H14, being the first of the A class to be completed.
Like the rest of the A class, Active had a main gun armament of four 4.7 in (120 mm) guns on low angle (30 degree) mounts that were only suitable for anti-ship use, and an anti-aircraft armament of two 2-pounder (40 mm) "pom-poms". Eight 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes were carried on two quadruple mounts, with Mark V torpedoes carried. No sonar set was initially fitted, although provision was made to fit one later, while anti-submarine armament consisted of three depth charge chutes with six depth charges carried. High speed minesweeping equipment was also fitted.
The ship was powered by two Parsons geared steam turbines fed by three Admiralty 3-drum boilers. The machinery generated 34,000 shaft horsepower (25,000 kW), driving the ship to a design speed of 35.25 knots (65.28 km/h; 40.56 mph), although 36.73 knots (68.02 km/h; 42.27 mph) were reached during trials in December 1929.
Following commissioning, Active joined the Third Destroyer Flotilla as part of the Mediterranean Fleet, remaining in the Mediterranean other than for refits until 1939. On 4 April 1932, Active was involved in a collision with fellow A-class destroyer HMS Achates off Saint-Tropez, although damage was limited. Active patrolled off the coast of Palestine in response to the Arab revolt in June 1936, and following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, patrolled off Spain from September 1936 to January 1937.
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