HMS Daring (H16)

	HMS Daring in pre-war China Station white paint
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Daring
Ordered	2 February 1931
Builder	John I Thornycroft, Southampton
Cost	£225,536
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); 1,890 long tons (1,920 t) (deep load);
Length	329 ft (100.3 m) o/a
Beam	33 ft (10.1 m)
Draught	12 ft 6 in (3.8 m)
Installed power	36,000 shp (27,000 kW)
Propulsion	2 × shafts; 2 × Parsons geared steam turbines; 3 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers;
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 × 1 - 4.7-inch Mk IX guns; 1 × QF 3 inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun; 2 × 1 - QF 2-pounder Mk II guns; 2 × 4 - 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes; 20 × depth charges, 1 rail and 2 throwers;

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.

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