[1] Daring commenced her trials off Gravesend on 17 January 1894 and soon moved to the measured mile at Maplin Sands near Southend.

[7] In early June 1901 a boiler explosion occurred on board Daring at anchor off Portsmouth, causing the death of a crew-member and injuring several others.

[9] Lieutenant A. S. Susmann was appointed in command on 8 August 1902,[10] and the following month she became tender to HMS Cambridge, gunnery school ship off Plymouth.

[11] Later in September 1902, however, she was reported to be part of a squadron visiting Nauplia and Souda Bay at Crete in the Mediterranean Sea.

[12] On 26 October 1907 a minor collision took place between Daring and the destroyer Starfish at Devonport, both ships' hulls being dented.