Hms Daring: North Sea
Destroyer (20th Century)
Site Name Hms Daring: North Sea
Classification Destroyer (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Duncansby Head; H16
Canmore ID 222177
Site Number NE17SW 8001
NGR NE 146 722
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/222177
- Council Maritime
- Parish Maritime - Offshore
- Former Region Not Applicable
- Former District Not Applicable
- Former County Not Applicable
NE17SW 8001 unlocated
NLO: Duncansby Head [name: ND 406 733].
(Classified as destroyer: date of loss cited as 18 February 1940). HMS Daring: this vessel was torpedoed off Duncansby Head by U-23 in German position AN1692 (Alternatives N58 27 W1 37 or N58 37 W1 6).
Registration: London. 1375 tons displacement. Length: 96m. Beam: 10m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 38.5 W1 45.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the location cited by Larn and Larn. Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 October 2002.
R and B Larn 1998.
Plans and photographs of this vessel are held in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich.
(For online catalogue of negatives, see www.nmm.ac.uk/historicphotographs).
Information from Ms G Fabri (NMM), 7 November 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 88
Name : HMS DARING
Latitude : 583830
Longitude : 14500
Registration : LONDON
Type : DESTROYER
Tonnage : 1375
Tonnage Code : D
Length : 96
Beam : 10
Draught : 3m
Position : Position Approximate
Loss Day : 18
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1940
Comment : Torped off D'cansby Hd by U-23 at German posn AN1692 (Alt 5827/0137 or 5837/0106
Reference (19 April 2012)
UKHO Identifier : 001395
Feature Class : Wreck
Wreck Category : Non-dangerous wreck
State : LIVE
Classification : Unclassified
Position (Lat/long) : 58.65000,-1.66667
Horizontal Datum : ORDNANCE SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN (1936)
WGS84 Position (Lat/long) : 58.64963,-1.66844
WGS84 Origin : 3-D Cartesian Shift (BW)
Position Quality : Unreliable
Depth Quality : Depth unknown
Water Depth : 110
Vertical Datum : Lowest Astronomical Tide
Name : HMS DARING
Type : DESTROYER
Flag : BRITISH
Length : 99.4
Beam : 10.1
Draught : 2.7
Tonnage : 1375
Tonnage Type : Displacement
Date Sunk : 18/02/1940
Contact Description : Entire wreck
Original Sensor : Reported Sinking
Original Detection Year : 1940
Original Source : Other
Circumstances of Loss : **BUILT IN 1932 BY THORNEYCROFT. TURBINE ENGINES OF 36000 IHP. 3-DRUM BOILERS. FOUR 4.7INCH GUNS, 7 SMALLER. TORPEDOED AND SUNK BY U-23. 5 SURVIVORS FROM CREW OF 162. (DODS).
Surveying Details : **H056/40 6.11.40 REPD SUNK IN 583900N, 014000W. BUT ALSO IN 582700N, 013700W IN ROSYTH WK LIST, 10.4.40, AND IN 583700N, 010600W BY A/S W725/40, RA(D), HOME FLEET. IN VIEW OF CONFLICTING POSITIONS, EACH APPROX, NCA. FOR FILING ONLY.
**5.10.93 SUNK IN 584000N, 014000E. (AXIS SUBMARINE SUCCESSES). NCA.
Charting Comments : POSN FOR FILING ONLY
Date Last Amended : 23/11/2004
