Daring in pre-war China Station white paint
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Name | Daring |
Ordered | 2 February 1931 |
Builder | John I Thornycroft, Southampton |
Laid down | 18 June 1931 |
Launched | 7 April 1932 |
Commissioned | 25 November 1932 |
Identification | Pennant number: H16 |
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Fate | Torpedoed and sunk by U-23, 18 February 1940 |
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General characteristics as built | |
Class and type | D-class destroyer |
Displacement | 1,375 long tons (1,397 t) (standard) |
Length | 329 ft (100.3 m) o/a |
Beam | 33 ft (10.1 m) |
Draught | 12 ft 6 in (3.8 m) |
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Propulsion | 2 × shafts: 2 × geared steam turbines |
Speed | 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph) |
Range | 5,870 nmi (10,870 km; 6,760 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 145 |
Sensors and processing systems | ASDIC |
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HMS Daring was a D-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. The ship spent the bulk of her career on the China Station. She was briefly commanded by Louis Mountbatten before World War II. Daring escorted convoys in the Red Sea in October–November 1939 and then returned to the UK in January 1940 for the first time in five years. While escorting a convoy from Norway, she was sunk by the German submarine U-23 in February 1940.