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HMS Acasta (H 09)

Destroyer of the A class


HMS Acasta before World War Two

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassA 
PennantH 09 
Built byJohn Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Company Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) 
Ordered6 Mar, 1928 
Laid down13 Aug, 1928 
Launched8 Aug, 1929 
Commissioned11 Feb, 1930 
Lost8 Jun, 1940 
Loss position
 
HistoryHMS Acasta (Cdr. Charles Eric Glasfurd, RN) was sunk on 8 June 1940 while defending the aircraft carrier HMS Glorious from the German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst. There was only 1 survivor.

Commanding Officers:
Cdr. Percy James Oliver, RN
August 1939 - 28 November 1939

Cdr. Charles Eric Glasfurd, RN
28 November 1939 – 8 June 1940+ 

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