Name: | DECOY & DELIGHT |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | n/a |
Launched: | n/a |
Completed: | n/a |
Builder: | Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd |
Yard: | High Walker |
Yard Number: | 99 & 100 respectively |
Dimensions: | 2830disp - 3820disp, 366.0 x 43.0 x 12.8(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x Geared steam turbines, Parsons type, 54000shp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 30.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 3 x 2 x 4.5ins QF, 3 x 2 x 40mm guns, 2 x 5 x 21.0ins torpedoes, Squid mortar |
History: | |
British Royal Navy | |
Cancelled | |
Comments: | Members of the Daring Class of destroyers |
24/01/1945: Both ordered at the same time as DARING | |
DECOY allocated pennant number I40 | |
DELIGHT allocated pennant number I45 | |
13/12/1945: Both cancelled by the Admiralty, not laid down. |