Thirteen ships of the
Royal Navy
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have borne the name HMS ''Delight'':
* was a discovery vessel wrecked in 1583 off
Sable Island
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. She may not have been part of the English Navy, and was possibly part of
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's 1583 expedition to
Newfoundland
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.
* was a four-gun
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purchased in 1686 and sold in 1713.
* was a 14-gun
sixth-rate
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launched in 1709 and sold in 1712.
* was a 14-gun
sloop launched in 1778 and foundered in 1781.
*
HMS ''Delight'' (1801) was an 18-gun sloop, formerly the French corvette ''Sans Pareille''. She was captured in 1801 by and sold in 1805.
* was a 16-gun
brig-sloop
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launched in 1806 and captured by the French in 1808 when she became stranded off
Calabria
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HMS ''Delight'' was a 16-gun
brig
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, formerly the French brig ''Friedland'', name vessel of her class of six brigs. captured her in 1808; ''Delight'' was paid off in 1810 and sold in 1814.
* was a 10-gun brig-sloop of the launched in 1819 and wrecked in 1824 with the loss of al aboard. She had been carrying some 103 slaves that she had rescued from
Providence Island where they had been stranded when the French brig ''Lys'' had wrecked there.
[''British and Foreign State Papers'' (1846), Vol. 12, pp.337-8. (H.M. Stationery Office).]
* was a 10-gun ''Cherokee''-class brig-sloop launched in 1829 and sold in 1844. She served as a
Post Office Packet Service
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packet
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* was a wood screw launched in 1856 and sold in 1867. She was later renamed ''M. A. Starr''.
* was a
D-class destroyer
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larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats. They were conceived i ...
launched in 1932 and sunk in 1940.
* HMS ''Delight'' was to have been a destroyer, ordered in 1945, but cancelled the following year.
* was a destroyer launched in 1950. She was previously to have been named HMS ''Disdain'', but was renamed in 1946 prior to launching. She was sold in 1970.
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Royal Navy ship names