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HMS Daring (1893)
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HMS Daring and HMS Decoy
together made up the Daring-class of torpedo boat destroyers which served with the Royal Navy during the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. They differed from the later Ardent class only in the provision of a bow mounted torpedo tube, which was later removed. On trial she made headlines as the 'Fastest Boat Ever' by achieving a speed of 28.21 knots. The introduction of steam turbine
s after 1897 quickly made her and her sisters obsolete and she was sold off in 1912.
The ship was launched on the 25 November 1893 from the yard at Chiswick following the naming ceremony by Mrs Thorneycroft, the wife of the company founder John Isaac Thornycroft
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HMS Decoy (1894)
HMS Decoy was a Daring-class torpedo boat destroyer which served with the Royal Navy.She was built by John I. Thornycroft & Company at Chiswick and was launched on 7 February 1894....
together made up the Daring-class of torpedo boat destroyers which served with the Royal Navy during the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. They differed from the later Ardent class only in the provision of a bow mounted torpedo tube, which was later removed. On trial she made headlines as the 'Fastest Boat Ever' by achieving a speed of 28.21 knots. The introduction of steam turbine
Steam turbine
A steam turbine is a mechanical device that extracts thermal energy from pressurized steam, and converts it into rotary motion. Its modern manifestation was invented by Sir Charles Parsons in 1884....
s after 1897 quickly made her and her sisters obsolete and she was sold off in 1912.
The ship was launched on the 25 November 1893 from the yard at Chiswick following the naming ceremony by Mrs Thorneycroft, the wife of the company founder John Isaac Thornycroft
John Isaac Thornycroft
Sir John Isaac Thornycroft was a British shipbuilder, the founder of the Thornycroft shipbuilding company and member of the Thornycroft family.-Biography:He was born in 1843 to Mary Francis and Thomas Thornycroft....
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