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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| AMBUSCADE |
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GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1926 |
15/01/1926 |
09/04/1927 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Naval Destroyer
| Steel Steam Turbine 2 Masts |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Yarrow & Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
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1498 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 1424 grt / 541 nrt / 1585 deep disp |
319 ft LWL |
31 ft 0 in |
18 ft 9 in |
10 ft 0 in |
| Engine builder |
, |
| Engine detail |
| 2 shaft Brown-Curtis geared turbines, 3 Yarrow 4-drum watertube boilers (2-large, 1-small with Air Heater) 290 lbs/sq.in., oil, 33,000shp giving 37 knots. (37.66 knots in trials)2 - Screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| The Admiralty, London |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
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| Vessel history |
Destroyer, Yarrow Prototype - D.38, I.48
Battle Honours: ATLANTIC 1940-44 - ARCTIC 1942 |
| Remarks |
Length Overall 322 ft 0 in.
Standard Displacement 1173 tons on 8 ft 7.5 in draught. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1947 |
Broken Up 23/11/1947 |
| Disposal Detail |
Sold to BISCO 23/11/1946 for breaking up at Troon and was used for Shock trials before being scrapped
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Ambuscade query trials
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Ambuscade 1935
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Ambuscade 1943 Squid mounting
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