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HMS 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]

HMS Delight
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Delight
Ordered5 June 1943
BuilderFairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Laid down5 September 1946
Launched21 December 1950
Motto
  • Duris delectat virtus
  • ("Valour delighteth in difficulties")
FateScrapped 1971
Badge
  • On a Field Green, Pan's Pipe Gold and Silver
General characteristics
Class and type Daring-class destroyer
DisplacementStandard: 2,830 tons, Full load: 3,820 tons
Length390 ft (120 m)
Beam43 ft (13 m)
Draught13.6 ft (4.1 m)
Propulsion2 Foster Wheeler boilers (650 psi, 850 °F), Parsons steam turbines, 2 shafts, 54,000 shp (40 MW)
Speed30 knots (56 km/h)
Range4,400 nautical miles (8,100 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h)
ComplementApproximately 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
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

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


  1. "D Class Destroyers". Battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
  2. Mason, Geoffrey B. (2007). "Chronology, Part 2 - 1951-60". naval-history.net. Retrieved 30 May 2015.

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