HMS Acasta

HMS Acasta A class destroyer built at Clydebank and launched 8th August 1929. HMS Acasta was sunk along with her sister ship HMS Ardent during the action against the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. but HMS Acasta did manage to Torpedo the Scharnhorst before being sunk Displacement: 1,350 tons Speed: 35 Knots, Compliment: 138. Armament: Four 4.7-inch guns two 2 pounder AA Guns and eight Torpedo Tubes
HMS Acasta H.09	8th August 1929		Sunk 8th June 1940. during the action with Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
HMS Acasta. Original Postcard. Published by P A Vickery c.1970. Price £15. Click here to order. Order Code PHD202		HMS Acasta, July 1935. A large image size 10" x 7" approx, is available. Reproduced from the original negative / photo under license from MPL, the copyright holder. A signed numbered certificate is supplied. Price £25. Order photograph here Order Code XMP1861 Original republished © MPL Photograph (Postcard Size). Price £5 Click here to order. Order Code MP1861
HMS Acasta, January 1940. Photo supplied by Gary Martin, see message board.		HMS Acasta AA Crew, Jan 1940. Thanks to Gary Martin, see message board.
The Crew of HMS Acasta, January 1940. Photo supplied by Gary Martin, see message board.
Crew members of HMS Acasta, 1940. Group includes Able Seaman Victor Vincent McCullen, who served at the Battle of Jutland, and was lost on Acasta on 8th June 1940. Contributed by his grandson Tim McCullen
Victor Vincent McCullen of HMS Acasta, photographed in 1940. Contributed by his grandson Tim McCullen.
Sister ships of HMS Acasta
HMS Codrington D.65	7th August 1929		Sunk in Dover Harbour on 27th July 1940.
HMS Achates H.12	4th October 1929		Sunk 31st December 1942. in the Barents sea
HMS Acheron H.45	18th March 1930		Mined and sunk 17th December 1940.
HMS Active H.14	9th July 1929		Broken up 1947.
HMS Antelope H.36	27th July 1929		Broken up 1946.
HMS Anthony H.40	24th April 1929		Broken up 1948.
HMS Ardent H.41	26th June 1929		Sunk 8th June 1940. during the action with Scharnhorst and Gneisenau
HMS Arrow H.42	22nd August 1929		Damaged 4th August 1943 and never repaired.
HMS Saguenay D.79 (RCN)	11th July 1930		Damaged in collision and later used as a training ship in 1943.
HMS Skeena D.59 (RCN)	10th October 1930		Wrecked on 25th October 1944.

Naval Historians, Crew & Family Noticeboard Message Board for naval enthusiasts and crew descendents of HMS Acasta. This website is not part of any governmental body or official websites of HMS Acasta. Photographs and information on historical events about the HMS Acasta requested for this new website. If you have any information you would like to send us including photographs of crew members serving on HMS Acasta and also photographs of the ship please USE OUR MESSAGE FORM MESSAGES CLIFFORD HIBBERT.... Please find attached photos relating to Acasta that originally belonged to Clifford Hibbert pictured front row 2nd left and who was lost with the ship. Photos belong to Glynne Hibbert, nephew of the aforementioned. Gary Martin Addition........... In the collection of photo's taken by my Uncle Clifford Hibbert there are shown HMS Kelvin, HMS Windsor. Have you any details of their war numbers and anything else about them. From my photo's these ships and Acasta were together during January 1940. The photo of the Windsor is after dropping depth charges, my next photo in Cliffords words on the photo is the end of a U-boat, the one With Kelvin is searching for survivors, yet the war office claim NO U-boat was ever sunk in January. I am keen to learn as much as possible on my uncles ship HMS Acasta. Glynne Hibbert FREDERICK WD LEEWORTHY.. this is a message for Glynne Hibbert, I am very interested in your pictures of HMS Acasta as my Wifes grandfather appears to have served on this ship, do you know where i may be able to find a list of the crew, I know he was not a board HMS acasta when she was sunk as he died on board HMS Cromarty in 1943. Contact Here Any help you can give would be welcome regards Mark French IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE A MESSAGE USE OUR MESSAGE FORM