fleet.wikisort.org - ShipHMS Delight was a Daring-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1950 as the Royal Navy's first all-welded warship, and broken up at Inverkeithing in 1971.[1]
Daring-class destroyer
For other ships with the same name, see HMS Delight.
 HMS Delight |
History |
United Kingdom |
Name | HMS Delight |
Ordered | 5 June 1943 |
Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company |
Laid down | 5 September 1946 |
Launched | 21 December 1950 |
Motto |
- Duris delectat virtus
- ("Valour delighteth in difficulties")
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Fate | Scrapped 1971 |
Badge |
- On a Field Green, Pan's Pipe Gold and Silver

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General characteristics |
Class and type | Daring-class destroyer |
Displacement | Standard: 2,830 tons, Full load: 3,820 tons |
Length | 390 ft (120 m) |
Beam | 43 ft (13 m) |
Draught | 13.6 ft (4.1 m) |
Propulsion | 2 Foster Wheeler boilers (650 psi, 850 °F), Parsons steam turbines, 2 shafts, 54,000 shp (40 MW) |
Speed | 30 knots (56 km/h) |
Range | 4,400 nautical miles (8,100 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Complement | Approximately 300 |
Sensors and processing systems |
- Radar Type 293Q target indication
- Radar Type 291 air warning
- Radar Type 274 navigation
- Radar Type 275 fire control on director Mk.VI
- Radar Type 262 fire control on director CRBF and STAAG Mk.II
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Armament |
- 6 QF 4.5 in /45 (114 mm) Mark V in 3 twin mountings UD Mark VI
- 4 40 mm /60 Bofors A/A in 2 twin mounts STAAG Mk.II
- 2 40 mm /60 Bofors A/A in 1 twin mount Mk.V
- 2 pentad tubes for 21 inch (533 mm) torpedoes Mk.IX
- 1 Squid anti submarine mortar
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Service history
In 1956 she formed part of the Royal Navy's force used during the Suez Operation. In 1959 Delight was involved in a collision in the Mediterranean with the cruiser Birmingham. Two ratings died during damage control activities.[2]
Notes
Publications
- 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.
- McCart, Neil (2008). Daring Class Destroyers. Fan Publications. ISBN 978-1-904459-33-0.
External links
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Royal Navy | Completed | |
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Cancelled |
- Vimiera / Danae
- Demon
- Dervish
- Decoy (I40)
- Delight (I45)
- Desperate
- Desire
- Diana (I77)
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Royal Australian Navy | |
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Peruvian Navy |
- Palacios (ex-Diana (D126))
- Ferré (ex-Decoy (D106))
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- List of destroyers of the Royal Navy
- List of destroyers of the Royal Australian Navy
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