A speculative lineage from Henderson to Daring

This lineage is explicitly a historical inference rather than a settled fact. If Henderson's unbuilt large-destroyer ideas had succeeded in peacetime and he had later returned as First Sea Lord, the suggested successor would have looked much like a Daring. The argument also captures the period's weapons logic, when ship-launched torpedoes still mattered to destroyer design. In the early Cold War, the class could pair that combat threat with a visible British answer to Sverdlov-class cruisers and Soviet naval diplomacy.