HMS Daring to get multimillion engine refit

GUERNSEY-affiliated Royal Navy vessel HMS Daring is to be part of a multimillion pound engine refit.

Published Apr 9, 2018

HMS Daring, the Guernsey-affiliated Type 45 destroyer, is to have extra power generation sources fitted as part of a £160m. Ministry of Defence contract with BAE systems.

The Ministry of Defence has announced a £160m. contract with BAE Systems to update the power and propulsion system fitted to all of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers, which each cost around £1bn to build.

Contractors have claimed the Ministry of Defence did not tell them that the 8,000-ton destroyers would be spending a long time in warm waters.

The six warships have an engine which is at risk of cutting out at sea, leaving servicemen stranded for hours in total darkness.

The Power Improvement Project will enhance the resilience of the Type 45 class by installing additional power generation sources in each ship. Delivered as a major conversion project, the PIP will replace the two existing generators with three larger units capable of delivering the ships’ propulsion.

Guernsey was offered an affiliation to the ship in 2007 by first sea lord and chief of naval staff Admiral Sir Jonathan Band, to continue the long established links with the Royal Navy.

Such affiliations are designed to help strengthen ties with local communities and the Navy also provides benefits for organisations such as naval associations, youth groups and charities.