H.M.S. Daring
D.05
1952
(Albatros ALK-302)
- Class: Daring - 8 destroyers of 1945
- Displacement: 2,830 tons standard; 3,820 tons full load
- Dimensions: 390 x 53 x 13.6 ft
- Machinery: 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers, Parsons steam turbines, 2 shafts, 54,000shp = 30 knots
- Armament: 6-4.5in (3x2), 6-40mm (3x2) guns; 10-21in TT
- ASW weapons: Squid triple-barrelled depth-charge mortar
- Complement: 300
- Builder: Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend
- Laid down: 29 Sep 1945
- Launched: 19 Aug 1949
- Commissioned: 8 Mar 1952
- Decommissioned: 9 Oct 1968
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