HMS Dauntless

Five ships and one shore establishment of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Dauntless:

• HMS Dauntless (1804) was an 18-gun sloop launched at Hull, England in November 1804. In 1807 she ran aground during a battle in the Vistula River and was forced to surrender to the French.
• HMS Dauntless (1808) was a 26-gun sloop launched in 1808 and sold for breaking in 1825.
• HMS Dauntless (1847) was a 24-gun (from 1854, 33-gun) frigate launched in 1847 and sold for breaking in 1885.
• HMS Dauntless (D45) was a Danae-class light cruiser launched in 1918. She was used as a training vessel from 1943 before being sold for breaking in 1946.
• HMS Dauntless was the WRNS training establishment at Burghfield, near Reading, Berkshire, from 1947 until 1981.
• HMS Dauntless (D33) is a Type 45 destroyer launched on 23 January 2007 at the BAE Systems Govan shipyard in Glasgow, and commissioned in June 2010.

Battle honours

Ships named Dauntless have earned the following battle honours:

• Baltic, 1854
• Crimea, 1854–55
• Atlantic, 1939

In popular culture

• In the 2003 film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl , a fictional HMS Dauntless appears as the flagship and pride of the Royal Navy. It is later revealed in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest that the ship was destroyed between the two movies by a hurricane.

References

• 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.