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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 ...
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.
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After taking command of the training ship HMS Devonshire in 1951, he became Naval Secretary in 1952. [6] He was made Flag Officer (Flotillas) for the Home Fleet in 1955 and Flag Officer commanding the Reserve Fleet in 1956. [6] His last appointment was as Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth in 1958. [6] He retired in 1962. [6]
List of shipwrecks: 11 November 1977 Ship State Description Aristoteles Liberia: Ran aground at Sestrice Island) and declared a constructive total loss. [49] Deepwater Bay Liberia: Explosion and fire while discharging cargo at Luanda, Angola. She was declared a constructive total loss and scrapped in June 1978.
The T-class submarine HMS Trident and the S-class submarine Seawolf joined the convoy, as did Force Q, the fleet oiler RFA Black Ranger and the Hunt class destroyer HMS Ledbury. [25] The Allied submarines P37, P46, P614, the Netherlands O-10, the Free French Minerve and the Soviet submarines S-102 , Shch-422 and K-1 formed a flanking screen.
This is a list of accidents and incidents involving the Westland Sea King helicopter, a British license-built and developed version of the American Sikorsky Sea King anti-submarine and utility helicopter, [1] As of 2012, Westland Sea Kings have been involved in forty-six significant accidents and incidents, involving forty-eight aircraft, during their service career.