HMS Daring (H16)

Daring in pre-war China Station white paint
History
United Kingdom
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
Motto	Splendide audax ("Finely Daring")
Fate	Torpedoed and sunk by U-23, 18 February 1940
Badge	On a Field Black, an arm and a hand in a cresset of fire all Proper
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)
Installed power	3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers 36,000 shp (27,000 kW)
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
Armament	4 × single 4.7 in (120 mm) guns 1 × single 3 in (76 mm) AA gun 2 × single 2 pdr (40 mm (1.6 in)) AA guns 2 × quadruple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 1 × depth charge rail, 2 throwers; 20 depth charges

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.