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This article is about ships of the Royal Navy. For the genus of barnacles, see
Acasta (crustacean)
. For Hadean rock formation, see
Acasta Gneiss
.
Three ships of the
Royal Navy
have borne the name
HMS
Acasta
, whilst another two were planned:
HMS
Acasta
(1797)
was a 40-gun
fifth rate
frigate
launched in 1797 and broken up in 1821.
HMS
Acasta
was to have been a wooden
screw frigate
. She was laid down in 1861 but was cancelled in 1863.
HMS
Acasta
(1912)
was an
Acasta
-class
destroyer
launched in 1912 and sold for scrap in 1921.
HMS
Acasta
(H09)
was an
A-class destroyer
launched in 1929. She was sunk in 1940 by the German battleships
Scharnhorst
and
Gneisenau
.
HMS
Acasta
(P452) was to have been an
Amphion
-class
submarine
, but was cancelled in 1945.
References
Colledge, J. J.
; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969].
Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy
(Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-86176-281-8
.
p.
2
.
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