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{{short description|British Royal Navy destroyer, launched 1950}}
{{other ships|HMS Diamond}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2015}}
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{{Infobox ship image
|Ship image=[[File:HMS Diamond, 1952 (IWM).jpg|300px|Daring class destroyer, HMS Diamond, July 1952]]
|Ship caption=HMS ''Diamond'', July 1952
}}
{{Infobox ship career
|Ship country=United Kingdom
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|naval}}
|Ship name=HMS ''Diamond''
|Ship ordered=24 January 1945
|Ship builder=[[John Brown & Company]], [[Clydebank]]
|Ship yard number=632 <ref name="clydedb">{{cite web|url=http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=2438 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050501092722/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=2438 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=1 May 2005 |title=HMS ''Diamond'' |work=Clydebuilt Ships Database |accessdate=31 May 2015}}</ref>
|Ship laid down=15 March 1949
|Ship launched=14 June 1950 <ref name=B-C>{{cite web|url=http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/d_class1.htm |title=HMS ''Diamond'' |work=Battleships-Cruisers.co.uk |accessdate=31 May 2015}}</ref>
|Ship commissioned=21 February 1952
|Ship decommissioned= 
|Ship honours=
|Ship identification=[[Pennant number]]: D35
|Ship fate=Scrapped at Rainham, Kent, 12 November 1981 <ref name="clydedb" />
|Ship notes=
|Ship badge=[[File:Diamond Crest.JPG|100px]]
|Ship motto=*''Honor clarissima gemma''
*(Latin: "Honour is the brightest jewel")
}}
{{Infobox ship characteristics
|Ship class={{sclass|Daring|destroyer (1949)|0}} [[destroyer]]
|Ship displacement=Standard: 2,830 [[ton]]s, full load: 3,820 tons <ref name="clydedb" />
|Ship length={{convert|391|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam={{convert|43|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship draught={{convert|22.6|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship power=
|Ship propulsion=*{{convert|54,000|shp|MW|lk=in|abbr=on}}
*2 × [[Foster Wheeler Corporation|Foster Wheeler]] [[Boiler (steam generator)|boilers]] (650 [[Pounds per square inch|psi]], 850 °F)
*2 × [[Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company|Parsons]] [[steam turbine]]s
*2 × shafts
|Ship speed={{convert|30|kn|km/h|lk=in}}
|Ship range={{convert|4400|nmi|km|lk=in}} at {{convert|20|kn|km/h}}
|Ship complement=Approximately 300
|Ship sensors=*[[Type 293 radar|Radar Type 293Q target indication]]
*[[Type 291 radar|Radar Type 291 air warning]]
*[[List of World War II British naval radar#Type 274|Radar Type 274 navigation]]
*[[List of World War II British naval radar#Type 275|Radar Type 275 fire control]] on director Mk.VI
*[[List of World War II British naval radar#Type 262|Radar Type 262 fire control]] on director CRBF and STAAG Mk.II
|Ship armament=
*6 × [[QF 4.5 inch naval gun|QF 4.5]] in /45 (114 mm) Mark V in 3 twin mountings UD Mark VI
*4 × [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|40 mm /60 Bofors A/A]] in 2 twin mounts STAAG Mk.II
*2 × [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|40 mm /60 Bofors A/A]] in 1 twin mount Mk.V
*2 × pentad tubes for [[British 21 inch torpedo|21 inch (533 mm)]] [[torpedo]]es Mk.IX
*1 × [[Squid (weapon)|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).<ref name="clydedb" />

==Service history==
In 1953 ''Diamond'' took part in the [[Fleet Review]] to celebrate the [[Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II]].<ref>Souvenir Programme, ''Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, 15th June 1953'', HMSO, Gale and Polden</ref>  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]].<ref>"British Warships In Collision". ''The Times'' (52741): Col C, p. 6. 1 October 1953.</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

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 [[Operation Musketeer (1956)|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.<ref>"Two Warships Collide". ''The Times'' (56048): Col D, p. 12. 26 June 1964.</ref>

[[File:HMS Diamond.jpg|thumb|left|HMS ''Diamond'' leaving Portsmouth for the last time]]In 1970, she became one of two Harbour Training Ships moored alongside Priddy's Hard jetty in Gosport and attached to the Marine Engineering School at nearby HMS Sultan and remained in this role until replaced by HMS ''Londonderry''. For most of this time, her steam plant remained maintained and useable for watchkeeping familiarisation purposes. HMS ''Diamond'' was scrapped in Rainham in Kent in 1981.<ref name="clydedb" />

==References==
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==Publications==
* {{Cite Colledge2006}}
* {{cite book|last=McCart |first=Neil |title=Daring Class Destroyers |publisher=Fan Publications |date=2008 |isbn=978-1-904459-33-0}}

{{Daring class destroyer (1949)}}

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[[Category:1950 ships]]
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