HMS Daring (H16)
D-class destroyer
Service
- as Daring25 November 1932 — 18 February 1940170 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Daring
- Pennant / hull number
- H16
- Builder
- John I Thornycroft, Southampton
- Ordered
- 2 February 1931
- Laid down
- 18 June 1931
- Launched
- 7 April 1932
- Commissioned
- 25 November 1932
- Fate
- Torpedoed and sunk on 18 February 1940
By torpedo (1940) - Status
- Wreck
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,375 long tons (1,397 t)
- Length
- 100.28 m (329 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.06 m (33 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 36 knots (66.7 km/h, 41.4 mph)
- Range
- 5,870 nmi (10,871 km)
- Complement
- 145
- Main gun
- 119 mm (4.7 in)
HMS Daring was a D-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number H16. John I Thornycroft, Southampton laid her keel on 18 June 1931. Launched on 7 April 1932, she entered service on 25 November 1932.
Displacement was 1,375 long tons. She measured 100.3 m (329 ft) long with a beam of 10.1 m (33 ft). Her designed speed was 36 knots, and she carried a complement of 145.
Her main battery was four 119 mm (4.7 in) guns. Her machinery developed 36,000 shp.
She was in commission for 170 days of the Second World War.
She was sunk on 18 February 1940 by torpedo, at 58°39′N 1°40′W. The wreck survives.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × shafts: 2 × geared steam turbines
- Power
- 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 36000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × single 4.7 in guns
- 1 × single 3 in AA gun
- 2 × single 2 pdr (40 mm) AA guns
- 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 1 × depth charge rail, 2 throwers; 20 depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Daring (H16) on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — [2] — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons