Official Royal Navy Photograph of Destroyer HMS Daring. Official Royal Navy Photograph of Destroyer HMS Daring.

Official Royal Navy Photograph of Destroyer HMS Daring.

Photo measuring 21.5cms x 16.5cms showing HMS Daring, the nameship of the Daring-class destroyers authorised in 1944. The reverse of the photo is dated 1953. Between 1953 and 1957 they were reclassified as "Darings" and not included in the destroyer total, but from October 1957 they reverted to classification as destroyers. She served five commissions, was placed in reserve in December 1968 and sold for scrap in 1971. She was the sixth ship of her name in the Royal Navy and was laid down in 1945 and launched in 1949 by.Swan Hunters on the river Tyne.

Code: 54480

2.50 GBP