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:	Broken up 1971
Badge:	On a Field Green, Pan's Pipe Gold and Silver
General characteristics
Class and type:	Daring-class 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 Daring-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1950 and broken up at Inverkeithing in 1971.

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.

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