HMS Delight (H38)
D-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Delight? — 29 July 1940331 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Delight
- Pennant / hull number
- H38
- Builder
- Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Scotstoun
- Ordered
- 2 February 1931
- Laid down
- 22 April 1931
- Launched
- 2 June 1932
- Fate
- Sunk by air attack, 29 July 1940
By aircraft (1940) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,375 long tons (1,397 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,890 long tons (1,920 t)
- Length
- 100.28 m (329 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.06 m (33 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,870 nmi (10,871 km)
- Complement
- 145
- Main gun
- 127 mm (5 in)
HMS Delight was a D-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H38. Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Govan, Scotstoun laid her keel on 22 April 1931. She was launched on 2 June 1932.
Displacement was 1,375 long tons standard and 1,890 long tons at full load. She measured 100.3 m (329 ft) long with a beam of 10.1 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 145. Her main battery was of 127 mm (5 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 36,000 shp.
She was in commission for 331 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 29 July 1940 by aircraft, at 50°34′N 2°26′W. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × shafts
- 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines
- 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- Power
- 36000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × 4.7 in Mark IX guns
- 1 × 12-pounder (3 in (76.2 mm)) anti-aircraft gun
- 2 × 4 – QF .5 in Vickers Mark III AA machine guns
- 2 × 4 – 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Delight (H38) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 11185 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons