ESCORT  Issue 87                           March 2010
In December 2009, H.M.S. Dauntless (the second of class of the Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyers) entered her home port of Portsmouth for the first time.  These photographs were taken of her arrival by Barry Robertson.  Dauntless should be commissioned by the time you see these pictures.
H.M.S. DAUNTLESS
Type 45 destroyer
Anyone wishing to build a model of this type, will find some very good photographs and the following drawing by Ian Sturton (reproduced at 1:700 scale) in the new book ‘World Navy Review 2010’ from Seaforth Publishing (see Book Reviews).