HMS Daring (1893)

Daring appears to have served in home waters between 1895 and 1912.^[6] She was commissioned at Portsmouth on 23 February 1900 as tender to HMS Excellent, gunnery school situated on Whale Island near Portsmouth.^[7] In early June 1901 a boiler explosion occurred on board Daring at anchor off Portsmouth, causing the death of a crew-member and injuring several others. An inquiry showed that some tubes were blown out of the lower drum, thus freeing a flood of scalding water and steam.^[8] She was passed into the Fleet reserve at Portsmouth in early June 1902, and later the same month joined the instructional flotilla at Plymouth.^[9] Lieutenant A. S. Susmann was appointed in command on 8 August 1902,^[10] and the following month she became tender to HMS Cambridge, gunnery school ship off Plymouth.^[11] Later in September 1902, however, she was reported to be part of a squadron visiting Nauplia and Souda Bay at Crete in the Mediterranean Sea.^[12] On 26 October 1907 a minor collision took place between Daring and the destroyer Starfish at Devonport, both ships' hulls being dented.^[13] Daring was sold on 10 April 1912.^[6]

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