Class and type Daring class destroyer Laid down April 3, 1947 Name Palacios Launched 8 May 1952 Draft 5.5 m | Name HMS Diana Commissioned March 29, 1954 Construction started 3 April 1947 Length 122 m Builder Yarrow Shipbuilders | |
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Fate Sold to Peruvian Navy on 1969 | ||
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BAP Palacios (DM-73) was a Daring class destroyer in service with the Peruvian Navy. She was completed for the Royal Navy in 1954 as HMS Diana. After being decommissioned she was sold to Peru in 1969 together with her sistership HMS Decoy. She was renamed after Enrique Palacios, a war hero who fought at the Battle of Angamos during the War of the Pacific.
Prior to entering service with the Peruvian Navy she underwent a major refit by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead between 1970 and 1973. Work done during this refit included the following:
After its rebuild, Palacios was commissioned into the Peruvian Navy on April 1973. Further work was done on the ship by SIMA dockyards in Callao as follows:
After serving in two navies for 39 years, Palacios was decommissioned in 1993.