HMS Diamond was a Royal Navy Daring-class destroyer commissioned in February 1952. She participated in the significant 1953 Fleet Review and the Suez Crisis of 1956. She was also involved in two notable collisions: first with HMS Swiftsure during a 1953 naval exercise, and later with HMS Salisbury in 1964. She went through one major refit, in 1959. The last episode of her service was as an engineering training ship from 1970 at Gosport until 1981, when she was scrapped in Rainham, Kent.

The Daring-class, HMS Diamond (D35), 1958 is a premium destroyer introduced in Update "Alpha Strike" as the third vessel of her class added to the game. Thanks to her large hull size, she can survive a significant number of hits, especially from HE ammunition, but she is very prone to ammo-rack explosions, as her aft and auxiliary ammunition racks are above the waterline. She features excellent main guns with a wide choice of ammunition, very good torpedoes, and competent anti-air guns to discourage enemy bombers or torpedo boats. Finally, she has a radar with a lead indicator, making it easier to hit distant aerial targets with HE-VT rounds.