HMS Diana (H49)

HMS Diana at a buoy
History
United Kingdom
Name	Diana
Ordered	2 February 1931
Builder	Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Hebburn-on-Tyne
Laid down	12 June 1931
Launched	16 June 1932 [1]
Completed	21 December 1932
Motto	Certo Dirigo ictu ("I aim with sure blow")
Fate	Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on 6 September 1940
Badge	On a Field Blue, a crescent Moon Silver
Canada
Name	Margaree
Namesake	Margaree River
Commissioned	6 September 1940
Honours and awards	Atlantic 1940[2]
Fate	Sunk following collision, 22 October 1940
General characteristics as built
Class and type	D-class destroyer
Displacement	1,375 long tons (1,397 t) (standard) 1,890 long tons (1,920 t) (deep)
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	2 × shafts 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
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
Armament	4 × QF 4.7-inch Mark IX guns 1 × 12-pounder (3 in (76.2 mm)) anti-aircraft (AA) gun 2 × 1 - QF 2-pounder Mk II AA guns 2 × 4 - 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers

HMS Diana was a D-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Ordered in 1931, the ship was constructed by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, and entered naval service in 1932. Diana 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. Diana 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 transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1940 and renamed HMCS Margaree. She served for just over a month with the Canadians before being sunk in a collision with a large freighter she was escorting on 22 October 1940.