Daring-class Destroyers (1949)
''Daring''-class destroyer may refer to: * Daring-class destroyer (1893), ''Daring''-class destroyer (1893), Royal Navy ships launched in 1893 and 1894 * Daring-class destroyer (1949), ''Daring''-class destroyer (1949), Royal Navy ships launched during the late 1940s and through the 1950s * Type 45 destroyer, also known as ''Daring'' class, Royal Navy ships launched from 2006 onwards See also

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Daring-class Destroyer (1893)
Two ''Daring''-class destroyers were the very first torpedo boat destroyers ("TBDs") to be ordered for the Royal Navy, the order being placed on 27 June 1892. Background The invention of the self-propelled torpedo in the 1860s, combined with the introduction of small fast torpedo boats posed a threat to battleships: large numbers of torpedo boats could overwhelm a battleship's defences and sink it, or distract the battleship and make it vulnerable to opposing capital ships. Torpedo boats proved devastatingly effective in the 1891 Chilean Civil War. The defence against torpedo boats was clear: small warships accompanying the fleet that could screen and protect it from attack by torpedo boats. Several European navies developed vessels variously known as torpedo boat "catchers", "hunters" and "destroyers", while the Royal Navy itself operated torpedo gunboats. However, the early designs lacked the range and speed to keep up with the fleet they were supposed to protect. In 1892, t ...
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