HMS Daring (1940): Shipwreck Map, Location & Facts

HMS Daring 1940

Image: Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Marker: recorded wreck position (Second World War).

Key facts

Name	HMS Daring	Wikidata label
Year lost	1940	English Wikipedia lead text (year following a loss verb, parsed)
Era	Second World War	derived from year
Ship type	destroyer	Wikidata P31 instance of
Cause of loss	War action	Keyword match in English Wikipedia lead sentence
Nationality / flag	United Kingdom	Wikidata P137 operator → P17 country
Operator	Royal Navy	Wikidata P137 operator
Conflict	World War II	Wikidata P607 conflict
Sea / ocean	North Sea	Natural Earth marine areas (public domain), point-in-polygon
Nearest coast	Scotland	Natural Earth (public domain); approx. 67 km from land
Position	58.6375, -1.7502	Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0)

About the wreck

HMS Daring was a D-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the early 1930s. The ship spent the bulk of her career on the China Station. She was briefly commanded by Louis Mountbatten before World War II. Daring escorted convoys in the Red Sea in October–November 1939 and then returned to the UK in January 1940 for the first time in five years. While escorting a convoy from Norway, she was sunk by the German submarine U-23 in February 1940.

Location

Recorded position: 58.6375, -1.7502 (Wikidata P625 coordinate location (CC0); may be approximate)
Sea / ocean: North Sea
Nearest coast: Scotland

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OpenStreetMap

Text adapted from the Wikipedia article HMS Daring (H16) (revision 1375232242), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: excerpted from the article lead section; condensed by selecting paragraphs; citations and formatting removed. No text added. This excerpt is available under the same licence.