HMS Ashanti (F51)
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| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Ordered: | June 1936 |
| Laid down: | 23rd November 1936 William Denny, Dumbarton |
| Launched: | 5th November 1937 by Lady Shuckburgh |
| Commissioned: | 21st December 1938 |
| Decommissioned: | |
| Fate: | Broken up, 1949 |
| Struck: | |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,020 T |
| Length: | 377 ft |
| Beam: | 36 ft 6 in |
| Draught: | 13 ft |
| Propulsion: | 2 x 22,000 shp Pearson geared turbine engines |
| Speed: | 36 knots |
| Range: | |
| Complement: | 190 |
| Armament: | 8 x 4.7 guns in four turrets, 4 x 2pdr, 4 x 21 inch torpedo tubes, 2 x depth charge throwers |
| Aircraft: | none |
| Motto: | |
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 of West Africa.
She carried three pennant numbers
- L51 August 1938 - December 1938
- F51 January 1939 - Autumn 1940
- G51 Autumn 1940 - April 1949
| Tribal class destroyer (1936) |
| Royal Navy |
| Afridi | Ashanti | Bedouin | Cossack | Eskimo | Gurkha | Maori | Mashona | Matabele | Mohawk | Nubian | Punjabi | Sikh | Somali | Tartar | Zulu |
| Royal Canadian Navy |
| Athabaskan (i) | Athabaskan (ii) | Cayuga | Haida | Huron | Iroquois | Micmac | Nootka |
| Royal Australian Navy |
| Arunta | Bataan | Warramunga |
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