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.

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Daring.

HMS Daring's sister ship, HMS Egeria
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Daring
Builder:	Blackwall Yard, London
Laid down:	1872
Launched:	4 February 1874[1]
Completed:	September 1874
Decommissioned:	1889
Fate:	Sold for scrap, August 1889
General characteristics
Class and type:	Fantome-class sloop
Displacement:	949 long tons (964 t)
Tons burthen:	727 bm
Length:	160 ft (48.8 m) (p/p)
Beam:	31 ft 4 in (9.6 m)
Draught:	14 ft (4.3 m)
Depth:	15 ft 6 in (4.7 m)
Installed power:	915 ihp (682 kW)
Propulsion:	1 shaft 1 × 2-cylinder horizontal compound trunk steam engine 3 × cylindrical boilers
Sail plan:	Barque rig
Speed:	10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Range:	1,000 nmi (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	125
Armament:	2 × 7-inch rifled muzzle-loading guns 2 × 6.3-inch 64-pounder rifled muzzle-loading guns

Construction

Daring was constructed of an iron frame sheathed with teak and copper (hence 'composite'), and powered by a trunk engine provided by John Penn & Sons.[2] She was fitted with a full barque rig of sails.

History

Daring served on the Pacific and China Stations, working some of the time for the Canadian Government, including conducting hydrography, for which the Canadian Government bore half the cost.[3] In Spring 1861 she carried Joseph Howe (the Provincial Secretary at the time) to the mouth of the Tangier River in Halifax County, Nova Scotia. There he arranged to have law and order restored by carving the gold diggings into appropriately sized lots, and offering them for rental for $40.[4] In 1877 Commander John Hammer made a sketch survey of the Skeena River entrance from Daring.[3]

Crew of HMS Daring circa 1885, and their mascot, a rooster

Fate

She was sold to a Mr J Cohen in 1889 and broken up.

Notes

1. "Naval Sloops at battleships-cruisers.co.uk". Retrieved 30 August 2008.
2. Winfield, p. 291
3. "British Columbia Archives". Archived from the original on 16 June 2008. Retrieved 29 May 2008.
4. Joseph Howe: The Briton Becomes Canadian, 1848–1873, J Murray Beck, ISBN 0-7735-0447-8, p. 149

Bibliography

• Ballard, G. A. (1939). "British Sloops of 1875: The Smaller Composite Type". Mariner's Mirror. Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research. 25 (April): 151–61.
• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
• Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
• Winfield, R.; Lyon, D. (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6.