
HMS Acasta (H09)

| Navy: | Royal Navy |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Class: |
A |
| Pennant: | H 09 |
| Built by: | John Brown Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd. (Clydebank, Scotland) |
| Ordered: | 6 March, 1928 from John Brown at Clydebank |
| Laid down: | 13 August, 1928 |
| Launched: | 8 August, 1929 |
| Commissioned: | 11 February, 1930 |
| Complement: |
138 |
| Lost: | 8 June, 1940 (Cdr. Charles.E.Glasfurd, R.N.)sunk (c 68°-45'N, 4°-30'E) Western Europe, west of Lofoten Islands,by German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst. |
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Battle Honours ATLANTIC 1939-40 - NORWAY 1940 - SCHARNHORST action 1940
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