Thirteen ships of the
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
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 Royal Navy, and was possibly part of
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's 1583 expedition to
Newfoundland
Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...
.
* was a four-gun
hoy
Hoy ( sco, Hoy; from Norse , meaning "high island") is an island in Orkney, Scotland, measuring – the second largest in the archipelago, after Mainland. A natural causeway, ''the Ayre'', links the island to the smaller South Walls; the tw ...
purchased in 1686 and sold in 1713.
* was a 14-gun
sixth-rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy used to categorise sailing warships, a sixth-rate was the designation for small warships mounting between 20 and 28 carriage-mounted guns on a single deck, sometimes with smaller guns on the upper works and ...
launched in 1709 and sold in 1712.
* was a 14-gun
sloop
A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast. Such an arrangement is called a fore-and-aft rig, and can be rigged as a Bermuda rig with triangular sa ...
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
In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term ''sloop-of-war'' enc ...
launched in 1806 and captured by the French in 1808 when she became stranded off
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HMS ''Delight'' was a 16-gun
brig
A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square rig, square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century and were a common type of smaller merchant vessel or warship from then until the ...
, 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 her entire crew. 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 another 10-gun ''Cherokee''-class brig-sloop launched in 1829 and sold in 1844.
* was a wood screw launched in 1856 and sold in 1867. She was later renamed ''M. A. Starr''.
* was a
D-class destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, manoeuvrable, long-endurance warship intended to escort
larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against powerful short range attackers. They were originally developed in ...
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