 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 the Second Italo-Abyssinian War , before being reassigned to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1936 . The ship was transferred to the Home Fleet in 1939 , and saw service during the Second World War . Diana was sunk by a mine