| Career (UK) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Active (H14) |
| Operator: | Royal Navy |
| Builder: | Hawthorn Leslie & Company, Hebburn |
| Laid down: | 10 July 1928 |
| Launched: | 09 July 1929 |
| Commissioned: | 9 February 1930 |
| Decommissioned: | 1947 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap 1947 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | A class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,350 tons standard 1,773 tons full load |
| Length: | 98.40 m (323 ft) |
| Beam: | 9.83 m (32 ft) |
| Draught: | 3.73 m (12 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 3 × Thornycroft oil-fired boilers >35,500 hp |
| Speed: | 35.25 knots (65.3 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,800 nmi at 15 knots |
| Complement: | 138 |
| Armament: | 4 × 4.7 in guns (4×1) 2 × 2 pounder AA guns (2×1) 8 × 21 inch torpedo tubes (2×4) |
HMS Active, the tenth Active (H14), launched in 1929, was an A class destroyer. She served in World War II, taking part in the sinking of four submarines. She was broken up in 1947.
She was launched 9 July 1929 as part of the first class of destroyers after World War I, at Hawthorn Leslie in Hebburn, Newcastle upon Tyne. She was commissioned 9 February 1930 as part of the third destroyer flotilla and part of the Mediterreanean Fleet. At the beginning of World War II she joined the 13th Flotilla based in Gibraltar and later Force H. As such she took part in the Operation Catapult against the French fleet in Mers el Kebir.
In May 1941 the ship participated in the hunt for the battleship Bismarck.
In 1942 she participated in the Madagascar landings (Operation Ironclad) during which on 8 May she sank the Vichy French submarine Monge. Later while being based in Cape Town on 8 October she sank the German U-179 en route to Penang.
During the rest of the war the ship served as escort mainly between Great Britain and Sierra Leone after receiving increased anti aircraft and anti submarine armament. On 23 May 1943 she sank the Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci west of Cape Finisterre together with HMS Ness and on 2 November 1943 U-340 close to Tangier.
In May 1947 HMS Active was decommissioned and sold for scrap.
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