HMS Daring |
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| Career (UK) | |
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| Name: | HMS Daring |
| Builder: | John I. Thornycroft & Company |
| Laid down: | July 1892 |
| Launched: | 25 November 1893 |
| Commissioned: | February 1895 |
| Decommissioned: | 1912 |
| Motto: | Splendide audax ("Finely Daring") |
| Honours and awards: |
Nil |
| Fate: | Sold and broken up |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 260 tonnes |
| Length: | 200 ft (61 m) |
| Beam: | 19 ft (5.8 m) |
| Draught: | 7 ft (2.1 m) |
| Installed power: | 4,200 hp (3,132 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: | 28 knots |
| Complement: | 46 - 53 |
| Armament: |
Guns and torpedoes
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HMS Daring and HMS Decoy together made up the Daring-class of torpedo boat destroyers which served with the Royal Navy during the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. They differed from the later Ardent class only in the provision of a bow mounted torpedo tube, which was later removed. On trial she made headlines as the 'Fastest Boat Ever'[1] by achieving a speed of 28.21 knots. The introduction of steam turbines after 1897 quickly made her and her sisters obsolete and she was sold off in 1912.
The ship was launched on the 25 November 1893 from the yard at Chiswick following the naming ceremony by Mrs Thorneycroft, the wife of the company founder John Isaac Thornycroft.[2]
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