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Name | HMS Delight |
Ordered | 2 February 1931 |
Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Scotstoun |
Cost | £229,378 |
Laid down | 22 April 1931 |
Launched | 2 June 1932[1] |
Completed | 31 January 1933 |
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Fate | Sunk by air attack, 29 July 1940 |
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General characteristics | |
Class and type | D-class destroyer |
Displacement |
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Length | 329 ft (100.3 m) o/a |
Beam | 33 ft (10.1 m) |
Draught | 12 ft 6 in (3.8 m) |
Installed power | 36,000 shp (27,000 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
Range | 5,870 nmi (10,870 km; 6,760 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 145 |
Sensors and processing systems | ASDIC |
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HMS Delight was a D-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. Delight was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet before she was transferred to the China Station in early 1935. She was temporarily deployed in the Red Sea during late 1935 during the Abyssinia Crisis, before returning to her duty station where she remained until mid-1939. Delight was transferred back to the Mediterranean Fleet just before the Second World War began in September 1939. She served with the Home Fleet during the Norwegian Campaign. The ship was sunk by German dive-bombers on 29 July 1940 while attempting to transit the English Channel in daylight.