HMCS Margaree (H49)

HMS Diana at a buoy
History
United Kingdom
Name:	Diana
Ordered:	2 February 1931
Builder:	Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Hebburn-on-Tyne
Laid down:	12 June 1931
Launched:	16 June 1932
Completed:	21 December 1932
Motto:	Certo Dirigo ictu ("I aim with sure blow")
Fate:	Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on 6 September 1940
Badge:	On a Field Blue, a crescent Moon Silver
Canada
Name:	Margaree
Namesake:	Margaree River
Commissioned:	6 September 1940
Honours and awards:	Atlantic 1940
Fate:	Sunk following collision, 22 October 1940
General characteristics as built
Class and type:	D-class destroyer
Displacement:	1,375 long tons (1,397 t) (standard) 1,890 long tons (1,920 t) (deep)
Length:	329 ft (100.3 m) o/a
Beam:	33 ft (10.1 m)
Draught:	12 ft 6 in (3.8 m)
Installed power:	36,000 shp (27,000 kW)
Propulsion:	2 × shafts 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Speed:	36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph)
Range:	5,870 nmi (10,870 km; 6,760 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph)
Complement:	145
Sensors and processing systems:	ASDIC
Armament:	4 × QF 4.7-inch Mark IX guns 1 × 12-pounder (3 in (76.2 mm)) anti-aircraft (AA) gun 2 × 1 - QF 2-pounder Mk II AA guns 2 × 4 - 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes 20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers

HMS Diana was a D-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Ordered in 1931, the ship was constructed by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, and entered naval service in 1932. Diana was initially assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet before she was transferred to the China Station in early 1935. She was temporarily deployed in the Red Sea during late 1935 during the Abyssinia Crisis, before returning to her duty station where she remained until mid-1939. Diana was transferred back to the Mediterranean Fleet just before the Second World War began in September 1939. She served with the Home Fleet during the Norwegian Campaign. The ship was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1940 and renamed HMCS Margaree. She served for just over a month with the Canadians before being sunk in a collision with a large freighter she was escorting on 22 October 1940.

Diana displaced 1,375 long tons (1,397 t) at standard load and 1,890 long tons (1,920 t) at deep load. The ship had an overall length of 329 feet (100.3 m), a beam of 33 feet (10.1 m) and a draught of 12 feet 6 inches (3.8 m). She was powered by Parsons geared steam turbines, driving two shafts, which developed a total of 36,000 shaft horsepower (27,000 kW) and gave a maximum speed of 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph). Steam for the turbines was provided by three Admiralty 3-drum water-tube boilers. Diana carried a maximum of 473 long tons (481 t) of fuel oil that gave her a range of 5,870 nautical miles (10,870 km; 6,760 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph). The ship's complement was 145 officers and men.

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