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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.