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Airfix 1/600 HMS Hotspur (01205) converted to HMS Daring. HMS Daring joined the Third Destroyer Flotilla in Scapa Flow on 10 February 1940 for escort duties. At 0354 hours (Berlin time), on 18 February 1940, while escorting Convoy HN12 from Bergen, Norway, to Methil. At co-ordinates 58°39′N 01°40′W about 40 nautical miles east of the Pentland Firth, HMS Daring (Commander Sydney Alan Cooper, RN) was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-23 commanded by Otto Kretschmer. She capsized and sank very quickly after having her stern blown off; 157 of the ship's company were lost. The five survivors were rescued by the submarine HMS Thistle, which had witnessed the attack. Albert John Clarke, service number C/JX 137478 was either a Leading or Able Seaman and served on HMS Daring. He was one of those lost on 18/2/40, aged 19 years. He was my mother's uncle.
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This is a conversion of the Airfix HMS Hotspur. HMS Dulverton was a Type II Hunt-class destroyer of the Royal Navy. She was laid down on 16 July 1940, and launched 1 April1941, she saw service during the Second World War until being damaged by German aircraft in 1943 during the Battle of Leros and was scuttled. My grandmother’s brother served on HMS Dulverton as an Ordinary Signalman and was lost at sea in 1942, aged 19.
