HMS Diamond (H22)
D-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Diamond? — 27 April 1941604 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Diamond
- Pennant / hull number
- H22
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness
- Ordered
- 2 February 1931
- Laid down
- 29 September 1931
- Launched
- 8 April 1932
- Fate
- Sunk by air attack, 27 April 1941
By aircraft (1941) - 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
- 119 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Diamond was a D-class destroyer in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H22. Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness laid her keel on 29 September 1931. She was launched on 8 April 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 four 119 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 36,000 shp.
She was in commission for 604 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 27 April 1941 by aircraft, at 36°30′N 23°34′E. 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 × 1 – QF 2 pdr (40 mm) Mk II guns
- 2 × 4 – 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 20 (later 35) × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Diamond (H22) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Taken by a Warrant Officer Class 2 in The Royal Scots (British Army) who died in world war II. Submitted by his son and daughter-in-law, Aileen & Bernard Trinder — Submitted to ticket — CC BY-SA 3.0 — Wikimedia Commons