HMS Daring (1893)

HMS Daring
History
United Kingdom
Name	Daring
Builder	John I. Thornycroft & Company
Cost	c.£36,000
Yard number	287
Laid down	July 1892
Launched	25 November 1893
Commissioned	February 1895
Decommissioned	1912
Motto	Splendide audax ("Finely Daring")
Fate	Sold and broken up
General characteristics [1]
Class and type	Daring-class torpedo boat destroyer
Displacement	260 long tons (264 t) light 287.8 long tons (292 t) full load
Length	185 ft (56 m) oa
Beam	19 ft (5.8 m)
Draught	7 ft (2.1 m)
Installed power	4,200 hp (3,132 kW)
Propulsion	2 Thornycroft water-tube boilers 2 × triple-expansion steam engines 2 shafts
Speed	28 knots (52 km/h)
Complement	46 - 53
Armament	1 × QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun 3 (later 5) × 6 pounder QF guns 2 × 18 inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes 1 × 18-inch bow torpedo tube (later removed)

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. On trial she made headlines as the 'Fastest Boat Ever'. The introduction of steam turbines after 1897 quickly made her and her sisters obsolete and she was sold off in 1912.