The Acasta class (in September 1913 re-designated the K class) was a class of twenty destroyers built for the Royal Navy under the Naval Programme of...
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the modified Acasta-class destroyer Fortune that trialled a new hull form that was slightly longer and narrower than that of the Acastas and incorporated...
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Acasta may refer to: Acasta (crustacean), a genus of barnacles HMS Acasta, various ships Acasta-class destroyers, First World War ships Acasta Gneiss,...
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HMS Acasta was an Acasta-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, and the name ship of that class. She was built between 1911 and 1913, and was initially designated...
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HMS Acasta was one of eight A-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy (RN) in the 1920s. The ship spent most of the 1930s assigned to the Mediterranean...
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HMS Spitfire (1912) (category Acasta-class destroyers)
HMS Spitfire was an Acasta-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Spitfire took part in the battle of Jutland in 1916. She was launched on 23 December 1912...
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HMS Contest (1913) (category Acasta-class destroyers)
HMS Contest was an Acasta-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was built by Hawthorn Leslie and Company at their Newcastle upon Tyne shipyard...
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1863. HMS Acasta (1912) was an Acasta-class destroyer launched in 1912 and sold for scrap in 1921. HMS Acasta (H09) was an A-class destroyer launched in...
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HMS Sparrowhawk (1895) was a Quail-class destroyer launched in 1895 and wrecked in 1904. HMS Sparrowhawk (1912) was an Acasta-class destroyer launched in 1912. She...
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HMS Midge (1913) (category Acasta-class destroyers)
an Acasta class (later K-class) destroyer of the British Royal Navy. The Acasta class was larger and more powerful than the preceding Acorn class. They...
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HMS Ardent (1894) was an Ardent-class torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1894 and broken up in 1911. HMS Ardent (1913) was an Acasta-class destroyer launched in 1913...
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HMS Shark (1912) (category Acasta-class destroyers)
HMS Shark, was an Acasta-class destroyer built in 1912 for the Royal Navy. Shark was sunk during the Battle of Jutland on the evening of 31 May 1916. Under...
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HMS Achates (1912) was an Acasta-class destroyer launched in 1912 and sold in 1921. HMS Achates (H12) was an A-class destroyer launched in 1929 and sunk...
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HMS Hardy (1912) was an Acasta-class destroyer launched in 1912 and sold for scrap in 1921. HMS Hardy (H87) was an H-class destroyer launched in 1936 and...
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HMS Shark (1894) was a Rocket-class destroyer launched in 1894 and broken up in 1911. HMS Shark (1912) was an Acasta-class destroyer launched in 1912. She was...
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HMS Spitfire (1895) was a Swordfish-class destroyer launched in 1895 and sold in 1912. HMS Spitfire (1912) was an Acasta-class destroyer launched in 1912 and sold...
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HMS Ardent (1913) (category Acasta-class destroyers)
/ 56.700°N 5.867°E / 56.700; 5.867 HMS Ardent was one of 20 Acasta-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. Completed in 1914 she saw...
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HMS Ambuscade (1913) (category Acasta-class destroyers)
HMS Ambuscade was an Acasta-class destroyer of the Royal Navy and was launched in 1913. She served throughout the First World War, forming part of the...
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HMS Sparrowhawk (1912) (category Acasta-class destroyers)
Sparrowhawk was an Acasta-class destroyer built in 1912 and sunk in 1916 at the Battle of Jutland after a collision with the destroyer leader HMS Broke...
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was an Acasta-class destroyer launched in 1913 and sunk by a mine in the Moray Firth in 1915. HMS Lynx (F27) was a Type 41 (or Leopard-class) frigate...
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was an Acasta-class destroyer that served in World War I and was scrapped in 1921. HMS Ambuscade (D38), launched in 1926, was a prototype destroyer which...
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HMS Fortune (1913) (category Acasta-class destroyers)
HMS Fortune was an Acasta-class destroyer, and the twenty-first ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. She was launched in 1913 and was sunk at the Battle...
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a list of destroyer classes. Catamarca class — 2 ships La Plata class — 2 ships Cervantes class — 2 ships, ex-Churruca class Mendoza class — 3 ships Buenos...
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HMS Christopher (1912) (category Acasta-class destroyers)
HMS Christopher was an Acasta-class destroyer (also known as the K class) of the British Royal Navy. She was built by Hawthorn Leslie in 1911–1912. She...
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HMS Cockatrice (1912) (category Acasta-class destroyers)
HMS Cockatrice was an Acasta-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was built by Hawthorn Leslie and Company, launching in 1912 and served throughout...
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Brazilian Navy have borne the name Maranhão Brazilian destroyer Maranhão (1927), an Acasta-class destroyer launched in 1913 as HMS Porpoise she was acquired...
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HMS Owl (1913) (category Acasta-class destroyers)
HMS Owl was an Acasta-class destroyer of the Royal Navy, launched in 1913. The destroyer was part of the Grand Fleet during the First World War and took...
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HMS Achates (1912) (category Acasta-class destroyers)
HMS Achates was an Acasta (or K)-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was built by the Scottish shipbuilder John Brown and was built between...
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HMS Garland (1856), a Cheerful-class screw gunboat launched in 1856, and broken up in 1864. HMS Garland (1913), an Acasta-class destroyer launched in 1913 that...
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HMS Broke (1914) (redirect from Chilean destroyer Almirante Goni)
out of control after hits from German ships, collided with the Acasta-class destroyer HMS Sparrowhawk, leading to the latter's loss. Broke saw action...
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