HMS Ambuscade (D38)

HMS Ambuscade
Class overview
Preceded by	Admiralty Modified W class
Succeeded by	A- and B class
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Ambuscade
Ordered	12 June 1924[1]
Builder	Yarrow
Laid down	8 December 1924
Launched	15 January 1926
Commissioned	9 April 1927
Identification	Pennant number: D38
Fate	Broken up in 1947
General characteristics [2]
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	1,173 long tons (1,192 t) (standard) 1,585 long tons (1,610 t)
Length	322 ft (98.15 m) oa 307 ft (93.57 m) pp
Beam	31 ft (9.45 m)
Draught	8 ft 6 in (2.59 m)
Propulsion	3 × Yarrow boilers Geared turbines, 2 shafts, 35,500 shp (26,500 kW)
Speed	37 kn (69 km/h; 43 mph)
Range	3,310 nmi (6,130 km; 3,810 mi) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement	138
Armament	4 × BL 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns 2 × 2-pounder anti-aircraft guns 6 × 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2 × 3)

HMS Ambuscade was a British Royal Navy destroyer which served in the Second World War. She and her Thornycroft competitor, HMS Amazon, were prototypes designed to exploit advances in construction and machinery since World War I and formed the basis of Royal Navy destroyer evolution up to the Tribal of 1936.

She was launched at Yarrow on 15 January 1926, served in World War II, and was broken up at Troon in 1946.