HMS Daring (1893)
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| Ship type : | Torpedo boat destroyer |
| Displacement : | 260 ts standard |
| Length: | 61 m |
| Width: | 5.80 m |
| Draft : | 2.10 m |
| Drive : | 3 Thornycroft steam boilers with piston steam engines 4,200 PS (3,125 kW ) |
| Fuel supply: | |
| Speed : | 28 kn (52 km / h ) |
| Range : | |
| Crew : | 46 - 53 |
| Armament: | 1 x 3 inch - gun 3 x 18-inch torpedo tubes with Whitehead- torpedoes |
HMS Daring (1893) was one of two torpedo boat destroyers of the Daring class of the British Royal Navy .
The ship was launched on November 25, 1893 at John Isaac Thornycroft's shipyard in Chiswick , and entered service in February 1895.
During test drives which reached Daring a top speed of 29.25 knots (54.3 km / h ) what their headlines as Fastest boat ever brought ( 'Fastest Boat Ever').
During its service life, however, the torpedo tube installed in the bow turned out to be unusable in practice, as the boat ran the risk of overtaking its own torpedo when attacked at high speed. In addition, the bulky tube narrowed the crew quarters and made the foredeck vulnerable to flooding. Based on this experience, the bow tube was later removed.
The introduction of steam turbines from 1897 quickly made her and her sister boat obsolete and so she was decommissioned and sold in 1912.
Cross references
- ↑ Fastest Boat Ever . New York Times. Retrieved December 11, 2007.
literature
- David Lyon: The First Destroyers . (1996), ISBN 1-84067-364-8 .
- Captain TD Manning: The British Destroyer . Putnam and Co, 1961