HMS Delight (D119)

	HMS Delight
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Delight
Ordered	5 June 1943
Builder	Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company
Laid down	5 September 1946
Launched	21 December 1950
Motto	Duris delectat virtus; ("Valour delighteth in difficulties");
Fate	Scrapped 1971
Badge	On a Field Green, Pan's Pipe Gold and Silver; ;
General characteristics
Class and type	Template:Sclass- 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
Sensors and ; processing systems	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;
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;

HMS Delight was a Template:Sclass- destroyer of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1950 as the Royal Navy's first all-welded warship, 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]

Notes

^ "D Class Destroyers". Battleships-cruisers.co.uk. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
^ Mason, Geoffrey B. (2007). "Chronology, Part 2 - 1951-60". naval-history.net. Retrieved 30 May 2015.