HMS DARING

(Bob Whitbread)

HMS DARING RETURNS HOME

HMS DARING has returned home to Portsmouth today (February 28th 2014) after circling the globe and sailing 44,000 nautical miles during a nine-month deployment.

The destroyer made headlines across the world in November when, while exercising in the South China Sea, was diverted to the Philippines following the devastation of Typhoon Haiyan.

During nine days DARING and her 220 crew surveyed 42,200 square miles covering more than 70 islands. They treated 300 patients and delivered 21 tonnes of stores and 7,656 litres of fresh drinking water ashore.

During her deployment HMS DARING has also visited 21 different ports, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, supported anti-piracy operations in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Aden and tracked ballistic targets during trials in the Pacific Ocean. She also represented the Royal Navy at Sydney in 2013 when Australia celebrated the Royal Australian Navy's Centenary.