Name: | DIANA |
Type: | Destroyer |
Keel: | 12/06/1931 |
Launched: | 16/06/1932 |
Completed: | 21/12/1932 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 1006 |
Dimensions: | 1375disp - 1890disp, 317.8 x 33.0 x 8.5(draft)ft |
Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, SR geared, 36000shp |
Engines by: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 35.5knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Armament: | 4 x 1 x 4.7ins, 2 x 1 x 2pdr AA, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins AA guns; 2 x 4 x 21ins torpedoes |
History: | |
21/12/1932 | British Royal Navy |
06/09/1940 | Royal Canadian Navy; renamed MARGAREE |
22/10/1940 | Sank |
Comments: | Member of the D Class of destroyers. Cost £229,367 |
22/10/1940: In convoy OL8 for Canada, she collided with PORT FAIRY | |
She sank with the loss of 142 crew out of a complement of 176 |
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