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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| DIANA |
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GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1954 |
08/05/1952 |
19/03/1954 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Naval Destroyer
| Steel Steam Turbine |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Yarrow & Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
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1846 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| / / 2800 disp/3800 disp |
390 ft LOA |
43 ft |
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12 ft 9 in/14 ft 6 i |
| Engine builder |
Yarrow & Co. Ltd., Glasgow |
| Engine detail |
| 2-shafts English Electric geared turbines supplied by 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers (650 lb/sq.in. @ 850 deg F.), 54000SHP 30knots. |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| The Admiralty, London. |
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| Other names |
| 1969 BAP PALACIOS |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
| Peruvian Navy |
| Vessel history |
Took part in the Suez Operation in 1956 when she torpedoed and sank the Egyptian frigate DOMIAT.
Was involved in a controversy over her use in atomic weapons testing in the South Pacific in 1956 following which many of her crew died with related illnesses in subsequent years. There were compensation claims 2007/008 but these seem to have been delayed. |
| Remarks |
Daring Class destroyer originally to have been named DRUID.
11/1969 purchased by Peru and delivered 1973 after refit. (DD.73). |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1993 |
Hulked |
| Disposal Detail |
| Ultimately laid up and canibalised for spares. Date unknown. |
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Image courtesy of : Paul Strathdee collection
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