HMS Daring (1874)
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| Career (UK) |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMS Daring |
| Builder: | Blackwall Yard, London |
| Commissioned: | 4 February 1874 |
| Decommissioned: | 1889 |
| Fate: | Sold and broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Screw Composite Sloop |
| Tons burthen: | 940 tons |
| Length: | 160 ft (49 m) |
| Beam: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Draught: | 14 ft (4.3 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails & Steam |
| Sail plan: | Barque Rigged |
| Armament: | 4 guns |
HMS Daring (1874) was a 4-gun sloop of the Royal Navy.
[edit] Construction
She was constructed of an iron frame sheathed with teak and copper (hence 'composite'), and powered by both sails and a single-screw steam engine.
[edit] History
Daring served on the Pacific and China Stations, working some of the time for the Canadian Government, including conducting hydrography, for which the Canadian Government bore half the cost[1]. In Spring 1861 she carried Joseph Howe (the Provincial Secretary at the time) to the mouth of the Tangier River in Halifax County, Nova Scotia. There he arranged to have law and order restored by carving the gold diggings into appropriately sized lots, and offering them for rental for $40.[2] In 1877 Cdr John Hammer RN made a sketch survey of the Skeena River entrance from Daring.[1] She was sold to a Mr J. Cohen in 1889 and broken up.
[edit] References
Colledge, J. J. and Warlow, Ben (2006). Ships of the Royal Navy: the complete record of all fighting ships of the Royal Navy, Rev. ed., London: Chatham. ISBN 9781861762818. OCLC 67375475.
- ^ a b British Columbia Archives. Retrieved on 2008-05-29.
- ^ Joseph Howe: The Briton Becomes Canadian, 1848-1873 By J. Murray Beck, p149. ISBN 0773504478
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