HMS Daring (1874)

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HMS Daring's sister ship, HMS Egeria
History
Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Daring
Builder Blackwall Yard, London
Laid down1872
Launched4 February 1874 [1]
CompletedSeptember 1874
Decommissioned1889
FateSold for scrap, August 1889
General characteristics
Class and type Fantome-class sloop
Displacement949 long tons (964 t)
Tons burthen727 bm
Length160 ft (48.8 m) (p/p)
Beam31 ft 4 in (9.6 m)
Draught14 ft (4.3 m)
Depth15 ft 6 in (4.7 m)
Installed power915  ihp (682 kW)
Propulsion
Sail plan Barque rig
Speed10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Range1,000  nmi (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement125
Armament

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.

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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 18?? 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 Crew HMS Daring (1874-89).jpg
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. 1 2 "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

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