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HMS Delight (D119)

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Name
  
HMS Delight

Laid down
  
5 September 1946

Construction started
  
5 September 1946

Length
  
119 m

Ordered
  
5 June 1943

Fate
  
Broken up 1971

Launched
  
21 December 1950

Draft
  
4.15 m

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Motto
  
Duris delectat virtus ("Valour delighteth in difficulties")

Badge
  
On a Field Green, Pan's Pipe Gold and Silver

Builder
  
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company

HMS Delight was a Daring-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1950 and broken up at Inverkeithing in 1971.

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Service history

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.

Publications

  • 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 Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475. 
  • McCart, Neil (2008). Daring Class Destroyers. Fan Publications. ISBN 978-1-904459-33-0. 

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