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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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