The Royal Navy's newest warship will sail into its home port for the first time today.
HMS Daring, the world's most advanced destroyer, was officially handed over to the Navy last month after work was completed at the BVT Surface Fleet's Scotstoun shipyard on the Clyde in Glasgow.
The 7,350-tonne ship will be the first of the Royal Navy's series of six Type 45 destroyers.
Daring will be met at Portsmouth Naval Base in Hampshire by families and friends of the ship's company, with fly-pasts by Royal Navy and RAF aircraft.
The ship features the latest propulsion, anti-aircraft weapon and stealth technology.
The Type 45 destroyers will have nearly twice the range - about 7,000 miles - and are 45% more fuel-efficient than the Type 42 destroyers they are replacing in the £6 billion project.
The ship was launched from BVT's facility in Scotstoun by the Countess of Wessex in January 2006.
Since then it has undergone three sets of contractor sea trials.
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