Several
Royal Navy ships have been named HMS ''Diamond''.
* , a 50-gun ship launched at
Deptford in 1652 and captured by France in 1693.
* , a
fifth-rate 50 gun ship launched at
Blackwall Yard in 1708 and rebuilt at
Deptford Dockyard in 1722, sold in 1744.
* , a fifth-rate launched at
Limehouse in 1741 and sold in 1756.
* , a fifth-rate launched at
Hull
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Structures
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* Fuselage, of an aircraft
* Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds
* Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship
* Submarine hull
Mathematics
* Affine hull, in affi ...
in 1774 and sold in 1784.
* , a fifth-rate launched at
Deptford in 1794 and broken up in 1812.
* , a fifth-rate launched at
Chatham in 1816 and broken up following a serious fire at
Portsmouth in 1827.
* , a
sixth-rate
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frigate launched in 1848. She was used as a training ship and renamed ''Joseph Straker'' between 1866 and 1868, and sold in 1885.
* , a 14-gun launched in 1874 and sold in 1889.
* , a built by
Cammell Laird
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, launched in 1904 and scrapped in 1921
* , a
D-class destroyer
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launched in 1931 and lost in action in 1941.
* , a destroyer launched in 1950 and sold in 1980.
* , a
Type 45 destroyer which began construction in 2005 and was launched on 27 November 2007.
Battle honours
Ships named ''Diamond'' have earned the following
battle honours:
*
Armada
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, 1588
*
Kentish Knock
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, 1652
*
Portland
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, 1653
*
Gabbard, 1653
*
Scheveningen
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, 1653
*
Lowestoft
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, 1665
*
Four Days' Battle, 1666
*
Orfordness, 1666
*
Sole Bay, 1672
*
Schooneveld, 1673
*
Texel, 1673
*
Crimea, 1854–55
*
Spartivento, 1940
*
Mediterranean, 1941
*
Malta Convoys, 1941
*
Greece, 1941
See also
*
Diamond Rock, a rock off
Martinique commissioned as HMS ''Diamond Rock'' in 1804 and recaptured by the French in 1805.
* was a six-gun sloop commissioned in 1804 in Martinique to serve as a tender to ''Diamond Rock'' and lost to a French privateer in June of that year.
References
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Royal Navy ship names