HMS Diamond
Several Royal Navy ships have been named HMS Diamond.
- HMS Diamond (1652), a 50-gun ship launched at Deptford in 1652 and captured by France in 1693.
- HMS Diamond (1708), a fifth-rate 50 gun ship launched at Blackwall Yard in 1708 and rebuilt at Deptford Dockyard in 1722, sold in 1744.
- HMS Diamond (1741), a fifth-rate launched at Limehouse in 1741 and sold in 1756.
- HMS Diamond (1774), a fifth-rate launched at Hull in 1774 and sold in 1784.
- HMS Diamond (1794), a fifth-rate launched at Deptford in 1794 and broken up in 1812.
- HMS Diamond (1816), a fifth-rate launched at Chatham in 1816 and broken up following a serious fire at Portsmouth in 1827.
- HMS Diamond (1848), 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 (1874), a 14-gun Amethyst-class corvette launched in 1874 and sold in 1889.
- HMS Diamond (1904), a Topaze-class cruiser built by Cammell Laird, launched in 1904 and scrapped in 1921
- HMS Diamond (H22), a D-class destroyer launched in 1931 and lost in action in 1941.
- HMS Diamond (D35), a Daring-class destroyer launched in 1950 and sold in 1980.
- HMS Diamond (D34), a Type 45 destroyer which began construction in 2005 and was launched on 27 November 2007.
Battle honours
Ships named Diamond have earned the following battle honours:
- Armada, 1588
- Kentish Knock, 1652
- Portland, 1653
- Gabbard, 1653
- Scheveningen, 1653
- Lowestoft, 1665
- Four Days' Battle, 1666
- Orfordness, 1666
- Sole Bay, 1672
- Schooneveld, 1673
- Texel, 1673
- Crimea, 1854–55
- Spartivento, 1940
- Mediterranean, 1941
- Malta Convoys, 1941
- Greece, 1941
See also
- Diamond Rock, a rock off Martinique commissioned as HMS Diamond Rock in 1804 and recaptured by the French in 1805.
- HMS 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 Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
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