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HMS Amazon was a prototype design of destroyer ordered for the Royal Navy in 1924. She was designed and built by Thornycroft in response to an Admiralty request for a new design of destroyer incorporating the lessons and technological advances of the First World War. Their great rivals Yarrow produced a similar, competitive design — that of ...
The bow section and the forward boiler room flooded almost instantly, and as crewmen evacuated the forward engine room and second boiler room they failed to close the hatches, allowing the flooding to continue into those compartments. After a failed attempt to reverse, the destroyer grounded at a depth of 7–8 meters (23–26 ft).
The fire room of the battleship USS Massachusetts. On a ship, the fire room, or FR or boiler room or stokehold, referred to the space, or spaces, of a vessel where water was brought to a boil. The steam was then transmitted to a separate engine room, often (but not always) located immediately aft, where it was utilized to power the vessel.
The design was intended as a smaller follow-on from the preceding Tribal class. In a departure from all previous Royal Navy destroyers, the design used a two boiler room layout. This reduced hull length and allowed for a single funnel, both reducing the profile and increasing the arcs of fire of the light anti-aircraft (AA) weapons. It also ...
Relocating to Leningrad in early November, the destroyer remained there for the next year. Seven sailors were killed and three wounded when a German shell struck the superstructure near the aft boiler room on 1 May 1943, after which she was repaired. During 1942 and 1943, the ship expended a hundred 130 mm shells in gunnery training.
However, before she could get underway two 'Long Lance' torpedoes fired by the Amatsukaze slammed into the midsection of Barton; one in her boiler room and one in her engine room. The massive explosions broke the Barton in two, and both sections sank only minutes after the first torpedo struck, carrying with her 164 men: 13 officers and 151 of ...
The British destroyer was hit at least seven times that severed the steam pipe to the forward boiler room, damaged the center boiler room, started a fire, and knocked out her steering gear, causing her to run aground. The German shells killed 9 men and wounded 21.
Her boiler room was flooded after an attack by Italian aircraft after this battle and she was repaired at Suez from 29 July to 15 September. Havock and her sister Hasty surprised the Italian submarine Berillo on the surface on 2 October off the coast of Egypt and forced her to scuttle herself. [11] The destroyers rescued 47 survivors between ...