HMS Diamond

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Diamond.

• HMS Diamond, a 50-gun ship launched at Deptford in 1652 and captured by France in 1693.
• HMS Diamond, a fifth-rate 50 gun ship launched at Blackwall Yard in 1708 and rebuilt at Deptford Dockyard in 1722, sold in 1744.
• HMS Diamond, a fifth-rate launched at Limehouse in 1741 and sold in 1756.
• HMS Diamond, a fifth-rate launched at Hull in 1774 and sold in 1784.
• HMS Diamond, a fifth-rate launched at Deptford in 1794 and broken up in 1812.^[1]
• HMS Diamond, a fifth-rate launched at Chatham in 1816 and broken up following a serious fire at Portsmouth in 1827.
• HMS Diamond, a sixth-rate frigate launched in 1848. She was used as a training ship and renamed Joseph Straker between 1866 and 1868, and sold in 1885.
• HMS Diamond, a 14-gun Amethyst-class screw corvette launched in 1874 and sold in 1889.
• HMS Diamond, a Topaze-class cruiser built by Cammell Laird, launched in 1904 and scrapped in 1921
• HMS Diamond, a D-class destroyer launched in 1931 and lost in action in 1941.
• HMS Diamond, a Daring-class destroyer launched in 1950 and sold in 1980.
• HMS Diamond, a Type 45 destroyer which began construction in 2005 and was launched on 27 November 2007.

See also

• Diamond Rock, a rock off Martinique commissioned as HMS Diamond Rock in 1804 and re-captured by the French in 1805.
• Fort Diamond was a six-gun sloop commissioned in 1804 in Martinique to serve as a tender to Diamond Rock and lost to a French privateer in June of that year.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.