HMS Diamond

HMS Diamond

Several ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS "Diamond".

*HMS "Diamond", a 50-gun ship launched at Deptford in 1651 and captured by France in 1693.
*HMS "Diamond", a fifth-rate 50 gun ship launched at Blackwall in 1708 and rebuilt at Deptford in 1722, sold in 1744.
*HMS "Diamond", a fifth-rate launched at Limehouse in 1741 and sold in 1756.
*HMS "Diamond", a fifth-rate launched at Hull in 1774 and sold in 1784.
*HMS "Diamond", a fifth-rate launched at Deptford in 1794 and broken up in 1812. [http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/18-1900/D/01368.html]
*HMS "Diamond", a fifth-rate launched at Chatham in 1816 and broken up following a serious fire at Portsmouth in 1827.
*HMS "Diamond", a sixth-rate frigate launched in 1848. She was used as a training ship and renamed "Joseph Straker" between 1866 and 1868, and sold in 1885.
*HMS "Diamond", a 14-gun screw corvette launched in 1874 and sold in 1889.
*HMS "Diamond", a Gem-class cruiser built by Cammell Laird, launched in 1904 and scrapped in 1921
*HMS "Diamond", a D class destroyer launched in 1931 and lost in action in 1941.
*HMS "Diamond", a "Daring" class destroyer launched in 1950 and sold in 1980.
*HMS "Diamond", a Type 45 destroyer which began construction in 2005 and was launched on 27 November 2007.

See also|Diamond Rock, a rock off Martinique commissioned as HMS "Fort Diamond" in 1804 and re-captured by the French in 1805.

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