| Career (United Kingdom) | |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Diamond |
| Ordered: | 24 January 1945 |
| Builder: | John Brown & Company, Clydebank |
| Yard number: | 632 [1] |
| Laid down: | 15 March 1949 |
| Launched: | 14 June 1950 [2] |
| Commissioned: | 21 February 1952 |
| Motto: | Honor clarissima gemma ("Honour is the brightest jewel") |
| Fate: | Scrapped at Rainham, Kent, 12 November 1981 [1] |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Daring class destroyer |
| Displacement: | Standard: 2,830 tons, Full load: 3,820 tons [1] |
| Length: | 391 ft (119 m) |
| Beam: | 43 ft (13 m) |
| Draught: | 22.6 ft (6.9 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 |
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HMS Diamond (D35) was a Daring-class 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).[1]
On 29 September 1953, she sustained severe bow damage in a collision with the cruiser HMS Swiftsure, during an exercise off the coast of Iceland.[1][3]
In 1956 she served in Suez, then underwent a refit in 1959 at Chatham dockyard. In 1964 she was involved in another collision, this time with HMS Salisbury. In 1970, she became a dockside training ship in Portsmouth. She was scrapped in Rainham in Kent in 1981.[1]
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