HMS Delight (D119)
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Delight |
| Launched: | 21 December 1950 |
| Motto: | Duris delectat virtus ("Valour delighteth in difficulties") |
| Fate: | Broken up 1971 |
| Badge: | On a Field Green, Pan's Pipe Gold and Silver |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Daring Class Destroyer |
| Displacement: | Standard: 2,830 tons, Full load: 3,820 tons |
| Length: | 390 ft (120 m) |
| Beam: | 53 ft (16 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 kn (56 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,400 nmi at 20 kn |
| Complement: | Approximately 300 |
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For other ships of the same name, see HMS Delight.
HMS Delight was a Daring-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1950 and broken up at Inverkeithing in 1971.[1]
[edit] References
- Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- ^ Battleships-cruisers.co.uk Website - D-class Destroyers. Retrieved on 2008-06-11.
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