HMS Acasta
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Three ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Acasta, whilst another two were planned:
- HMS Acasta was a 40-gun fifth rate frigate launched in 1797 and broken up in 1821.
- HMS Acasta was to have been a wooden screw frigate. She was laid down in 1861 but was cancelled in 1863.
- HMS Acasta was an Acasta class destroyers launched in 1912 and sold for scrapping in 1921.
- HMS Acasta was an A-class destroyer launched in 1929. She was sunk in 1940 by the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
- HMS Acasta was to have been an Amphion-class submarine, but was cancelled in 1945.
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
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