HMS Daring
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Seven vessels of the British Royal Navy
have been named HMS Daring.
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...
have been named HMS Daring.
- HMS Daring (1804)HMS Daring (1804)HMS Daring was a 12-gun gun-brig of the Archer class of the British Royal Navy.-History:She was built under contract by Jabez Bailey, of Ipswich and launched in October 1804. In August 1809, she served in the West Scheldt, being detached under Sir Home Popham to take soundings...
, a 12-gun Archer-class gun-brig launched in 1804 and destroyed after running aground in 1813. - HMS Daring (1844)HMS Daring (1844)HMS Daring was a 12 gun-brig of the Royal Navy which became part of the Experimental Squadrons of both 1844 and 1845, and later served in the West Indies. She was sold in 1864.-Construction:...
, a 12-gun brigBrigA brig is a sailing vessel with two square-rigged masts. During the Age of Sail, brigs were seen as fast and manoeuvrable and were used as both naval warships and merchant vessels. They were especially popular in the 18th and early 19th centuries...
launched in 1844 and broken up in 1864. - HMS Daring (1874)HMS Daring (1874)HMS Daring was a 4-gun Fantome-class sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched in 1874 and sold for breaking in 1889 after serving most of her career in the Pacific.-Construction:...
, a Fantome-classFantome class sloopThe Fantome class was a six-ship class of 4-gun screw composite sloops built for the Royal Navy during 1873 and 1874.-Construction:Fantome and her sister ships were constructed of an iron frame sheathed with teak and copper ....
4-gun composite sloopSloopA sloop is a sail boat with a fore-and-aft rig and a single mast farther forward than the mast of a cutter....
launched in 1874 and broken up in 1889. - HMS Daring (1893)HMS Daring (1893)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...
, a Daring-class destroyerDestroyerIn naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller, powerful, short-range attackers. Destroyers, originally called torpedo-boat destroyers in 1892, evolved from...
launched in 1893 and broken up in 1912. - HMS Daring was to have been an L-class destroyerLaforey class destroyer (1913)The Laforey class was a class of 22 torpedo boat destroyers of the Royal Navy, twenty of which were built under the Naval Programme of 1912 - 1913 and a further two under the War Emergency Programme of 1914. As such they were the last pre-war British destroyer design. All served during World War I...
, but was renamed LanceHMS Lance (1914)HMS Lance was a Laforey-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. Launched a few months before the outbreak of the First World War and attached to the Harwich Force, Lance took part in several engagements during the war, including the sinking of the and the Battle off Texel...
in 1913, a year before launch. - HMS Daring (H16)HMS Daring (H16)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...
, a D-classC and D class destroyerThe C and D class was a group of 14 destroyers built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. As in previous years, it was originally intended to order a complete flotilla comprising eight destroyers—plus a flotilla leader as the ninth unit—in each year. However, only four ships—plus a leader—were...
destroyer launched in 1932 and sunk in 1940. - HMS Daring (D05)HMS Daring (D05)HMS Daring was the nameship of the Daring class of destroyers authorised in 1944. Between 1953 and 1957 they were reclassified as "Darings" and not included in the destroyer total, but from October 1957 they reverted to classification as destroyers....
, a Daring-class destroyerDaring class destroyer (1949)The Daring class was a class of eleven destroyers built for the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy . Constructed after World War II, and entering service during the 1950s, eight ships were constructed for the RN, and three ships for the RAN. Two of the RN destroyers were subsequently sold to and...
launched in 1949 and broken up in 1971. - HMS Daring (D32)HMS Daring (D32)HMS Daring is the lead ship of the Type 45 or 'D' class of air defence destroyer in the Royal Navy and the seventh ship to hold that name.She was launched in 2006 on the Clyde and conducted contractor's sea trials during 2007 and 2008...
, a Type 45 destroyerType 45 destroyerThe United Kingdom's Type 45 destroyer is an air defence destroyer programme of the Royal Navy which will replace its Type 42 destroyers. The first ship in the class, HMS Daring, was launched on 1 February 2006 and commissioned on 23 July 2009. The ships are now built by BAE Systems Surface Ships...
launched on 1 February 2006.