Country: United Kingdom.
Class, [Type]: Daring, [DD].

Builder: J. Samuel White and Company, Cowes, U.K.
Launch date: 16 August 1950.
Commission date: 26 February 1953.
Decommission date: 1972.

Displacement ( tons ):  3820 full load.
Dimensions ( metres ): 120 x 16 x 4.
Main machinery: 2 x Parsons steam turbines ( 54000 hp ), 2 x Foster Wheeler boilers.
Speed ( knots ): 30.
Range ( miles ): 4000 at 20 knots.
Complement: 300.

Guns: 3 x 2 114mm Mk6, 2 x 2 40mm Bofors Mk2, 1 x 2 40mm Bofors Mk5.
A/S weapons: 1 x 3 Squid Mortar.
Torpedoes: 2 x 5 533mm torpedo tubes.

Radars: Air/Surface: Type 291; Navigation: Type 274; Fire control: Type 262, Type 275.

Year of visit the Black Sea:  1957