Regarding HMS Daring’s 2009 commissioning date, it didn’t actually achieve full operational capability until 2011, a fact that raised quite a kerfuffle in a 2009 House of Commons Public ...
The first Type 45, HMS Daring, arrived in Portsmouth in January 2009. She has been followed by HMS Dauntless, Diamond, Dragon, Defender and now Duncan. They will all be based in Portsmouth.
The Royal Navy’s Daring class Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless is in Cape Town, mid-way through her six-month deployment to the Falklands relieving HMS Montrose according to British defence news.