HMS Acasta
.jpg){kind=link}
Marker: recorded wreck position (Date not recorded).
Key facts
| Name | HMS Acasta | Wikidata label |
|---|---|---|
| Ship type | destroyer | Wikidata P31 instance of |
| Cause of loss | War action | Keyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence |
| Nationality / flag | United Kingdom | Wikidata P137 operator → P17 country |
| Operator | Royal Navy | Wikidata P137 operator |
| Conflict | Norwegian Campaign | Wikidata P607 conflict |
| Sea / ocean | Norwegian Sea | Natural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon |
| Position | 68.7500, 4.5000 | Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0) |
About the wreck
HMS Acasta was one of eight A-class destroyers built for the Royal Navy (RN) in the 1920s. The ship spent most of the 1930s assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet. During the early months of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939, Acasta spent considerable time in Spanish waters enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict.
At the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939, the ship was assigned convoy escort duties in the English Channel and the Western Approaches that lasted until April 1940 when the Germans invaded Norway. That month Acasta was transferred to the Home Fleet and supported Allied operations in Norway. Whilst escorting the aircraft carrier Glorious on 8 June 1940, she was sunk by the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, but not before badly damaging the former ship.
Location
- Recorded position: 68.7500, 4.5000 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
- Sea / ocean: Norwegian Sea
Wreck positions on this site are for interest only and are not for navigation. Many wrecks are war graves or legally protected: never disturb human remains or remove artefacts, and check local law before diving.
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article HMS Acasta (H09) (revision 1375230054), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; condensed by selecting paragraphs; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.
Wreck facts from Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby wrecks
- HMS Ardent 1940 · 0 km
- HMS Glorious 30 km
- U-361 1944 · 64 km
- U-987 1944 · 85 km
- U-394 1944 · 115 km
- U-973 1944 · 155 km
Other wrecks of the Norwegian Campaign
- HMS Ardent 1940
- HMS Diana 1940
- HMS Hostile 1940
- ORP Grom 1940
- HMS Ark Royal 1941
- HMS Punjabi 1942
- HMS Afridi
- HMS Bedouin
- HMS Bittern
- HMS Coventry
All 18 wrecks of the Norwegian Campaign →
Browse more: Open ocean wrecks · Norwegian Sea