- Service history
- References
- Publications
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}{{Use British English|date=August 2015}}{{otherships|HMS Diamond}}{{Infobox ship image| Ship image= | Ship caption=HMS Diamond, July 1952
}}{{Infobox ship career | Ship country=United Kingdom | UK|naval}} | Ship name=HMS Diamond | Ship ordered=24 January 1945 | Ship builder=John Brown & Company, Clydebank | Ship yard number=632 [1] | Ship laid down=15 March 1949 | Ship launched=14 June 1950 [2] | Ship commissioned=21 February 1952 | Ship decommissioned= | Ship honours= | Ship identification=Pennant number: D35 | Ship fate=Scrapped at Rainham, Kent, 12 November 1981 [1] | Ship status= | Ship notes= | Ship badge= | Ship motto=*Honor clarissima gemma- (Latin: "Honour is the brightest jewel")
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Daring|destroyer (1949)|0}} destroyer | Ship displacement=Standard: 2,830 tons, full load: 3,820 tons [1] | 391|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 43|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 22.6|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship power= | 54,000|shp|MW|lk=in|abbr=on}}- 2 × Foster Wheeler boilers (650 psi, 850 °F)
- 2 × Parsons steam turbines
- 2 × shafts
| 30|kn|km/h|lk=in}} | 4400|nmi|km|lk=in}} at {{convert|20|kn|km/h}} | Ship complement=Approximately 300 | Ship sensors=*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
| Ship 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
| Ship notes=
}} | HMS Diamond was a {{sclass-|Daring|destroyer (1949)|0}} destroyer of the British Royal Navy. She was built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, and launched on 14 June 1950. This ship was John Brown & Company's first all-welded ship (as opposed to the rivetted construction more commonly used up to that time).[1]Service historyIn 1953 Diamond took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.[3] On 29 September 1953, she sustained severe bow damage in a collision with the cruiser {{HMS|Swiftsure|08|2}} during Exercise Mariner, held off the coast of Iceland.[4][5] In 1956 Diamond was sent into Port Said to show the flag prior to the Franco-British assault, but the Egyptian government was unmoved and she sailed out to join the main attack force for the Suez landings at Port Said. She underwent a refit in 1959 at Chatham Dockyard. In 1964 she was involved in another collision, this time with the frigate {{HMS|Salisbury|F32|2}}, in the English Channel during a naval demonstration.[6] In 1970, she became a dockside training ship in Portsmouth and remained in this role until replaced by the destroyer {{HMS|Kent|D12|2}}. She was scrapped in Rainham in Kent in 1981.[1] References1. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite web|url=http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=2438 |title=HMS Diamond |work=Clydebuilt Ships Database |accessdate=31 May 2015}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/d_class1.htm |title=HMS Diamond |work=Battleships-Cruisers.co.uk |accessdate=31 May 2015}}
3. ^Souvenir Programme, Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, 15th June 1953, HMSO, Gale and Polden
4. ^"British Warships In Collision". The Times (52741): Col C, p. 6. 1 October 1953.
5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.rna-10-area.co.uk/files/vanguard/Vanguard_Apr_09.pdf |work=Vanguard (The Official Journal of the Royal Naval Association No 10 area) |title=Letter from P. D. Haynes, Trafford Branch |date=April 2009 |page=21 |accessdate=2010-02-14}}
6. ^"Two Warships Collide". The Times (56048): Col D, p. 12. 26 June 1964.
Publications- {{colledge}}
- {{cite book|last=McCart |first=Neil |title=Daring Class Destroyers |publisher=Fan Publications |date=2008 |isbn=978-1-904459-33-0}}
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