Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
HMS Ashanti was a Tribal-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was named after the Ashanti people, an ethnic group located in Ghana. The frigate was sunk as a target in 1988. Ashanti was built by Yarrow, of Scotstoun, at a cost of £5,315,000 and was the first commissioned Royal Navy warship to be equipped with combined steam and gas (COSAG ...
HMS_Ashanti.jpg (350 × 213 pixels, file size: 28 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ashanti after the Ashanti people. HMS Ashanti (F51) was a Tribal-class destroyer launched in 1937 and sold for breaking up in 1949. HMS Ashanti (F117) was a Tribal-class frigate launched in 1959. She was expended as a target in 1988.
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 people of the Gold Coast in West Africa. She served in the Second World War and was broken up in 1949. She was the first of two Royal Navy ships to bear the name Ashanti.
List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1977 Ship State Description Aristoteles Liberia: Ran aground at Sestrice Island) and declared a constructive total loss. [50] Deepwater Bay Liberia: Explosion and fire while discharging cargo at Luanda, Angola. She was declared a constructive total loss and scrapped in June 1978.
1 Hms Ashanti loss of 2 men 1974. 1 comment. Toggle the table of contents. Talk: HMS Ashanti (F117) Add languages. Page contents not supported in other languages.
Giriraj Singh waited for hours on Sunday to recover the body of his nephew but was told to head home as the remains were “burned beyond recognition.” “The bodies are unidentifiable and ...
30 April 1977 - Royal Norwegian Air Force Sea King Mk. 43 072 of 330 Squadron suffered a tail rotor strike during hovering over the sea and crashed; all four crewmembers died. [ 10 ] 25 October 1977 - Royal Navy Sea King HAS1 XV646 of 814 Naval Air Squadron ditched and sank in south western approaches following tail rotor transmission failure ...