HMS Ambuscade (D38)
.jpg) HMS Ambuscade
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| Name: | HMS Ambuscade |
| Ordered: | 12 June 1924 |
| Builder: | Yarrow |
| Laid down: | 8 December 1924 |
| Launched: | 15 January 1926 |
| Commissioned: | 9 April 1927 |
| Identification: | pennant number: D38 |
| Fate: | broken up in 1947 |
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| Type: | Destroyer |
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| Beam: | 31 ft (9.45 m) |
| Draught: | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
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| Speed: | 37 kn (69 km/h; 43 mph) |
| Range: | 3,310 nmi (6,130 km; 3,810 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Complement: | 138 |
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HMS Ambuscade was a British Royal Navy destroyer which served in the Second World War. She and her Thornycroft competitor, HMS Amazon, were prototypes designed to exploit advances in construction and machinery since World War I and formed the basis of Royal Navy destroyer evolution up to the Tribal of 1936.
She was launched at Yarrow on 15 January 1926, served in World War II, and was broken up at Troon in 1946.
In November 1923, the Admiralty issued a request to the major British shipyards specialising in destroyers for designs for the first destroyers to be built for the Royal Navy since the end of the First World War. The ships were required to carry a similar armament to that of the preceding war-built W-class destroyers (i.e. four 4.7 in (120 mm) guns and six 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes) but to have a longer range, at least 5,000 nautical miles (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at cruising speed. A speed of at least 34 knots (63 km/h; 39 mph) was required, and the ships were to be no more than 315 feet (96.01 m) long between perpendiculars (pp).
The winning designs were those from Yarrow and Thornycroft, and orders for one ship each placed in June 1924. Yarrow's design, which became HMS Ambuscade, was smaller and lighter (307 feet (93.57 m) long (pp) and 1,585 long tons (1,610 t) full load displacement) than Thornycroft's Amazon (311 feet 9 inches (95.02 m) pp long and 1,812 long tons (1,841 t) full load). The ship was fitted with Yarrow's distinctive inward sloping stern, which Yarrow claimed increased the ship's speed by up to 1 knot (1.9 km/h; 1.2 mph) compared to a conventional V-shaped stern.
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