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Daring as built

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Daring		287	Thornycroft, Chiswick	7.1892	25.11.1893	2.1895	despatch vessel 1905, sold 4.1912
Decoy		288	Thornycroft, Chiswick	7.1892	2.2.1894	6.1895	collision 13.8.1904

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	260
Displacement full, t	288
Length, m	56.4 oa
Breadth, m	5.79
Draught, m	2.13
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 4-cyl VCE, 3 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	4200
Max speed, kts	27
Fuel, t	coal 45
Endurance, nm(kts)	865(11)
Armament	1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I, 3 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 1 - 450 TT (bow aw), 2 x 1 - 450 TT (6 at all)
Complement	48

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Project history

The first 5 destroyers were 26-knotters with an armament of 3-450mm TT (one fixed bow tube, two single deck tubes), 1 76mm and 3 57mm. This was the armament carried, but provision was made for landing the two deck tubes and replacing them by an extra 2 57mm if they were to be used entirely for anti-torpedo boat work. All these destroyers had twin shafts and triple expansion engines, though the Thornycroft boats had a special four cylinder triple expansion design.

Rather more strongly built than the Yarrow vessels, these two were also faster, though they took longer to build. Daring made nearly 28.2kts with 4644ihp on the measured mile. Like most subsequent Thornycroft destroyers they had two funnels (so that they would resemble torpedo boats) and flat sterns.

Modernizations

1900, both: - 1 - 450 TT (without spare torpedoes)

1905, Daring: - 2 x 1 - 450 TT; + 2 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I

Naval service

Decoy sank after collision with destroyer Arun 13.8.1904 off Wolf Rock.