HMS Delight (D119)
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HMS Delight
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| Name: | HMS Delight |
| Ordered: | 5 June 1943 |
| Builder: | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company |
| Laid down: | 5 September 1946 |
| Launched: | 21 December 1950 |
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| Fate: | Broken up 1971 |
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| Class & 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 knots (56 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,400 nautical miles (8,100 km) at 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| Complement: | Approximately 300 |
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HMS Delight was a Daring-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1950 and broken up at Inverkeithing in 1971.[1]
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]
Commanding officers
| From | To | Captain |
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| 1953 | 1953 | |
| 1965 | 1966 | Commander G A F Bower RN |
| 1967 | 1970 |
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