HMS Duncan (F80)

HMS Duncan, July 1968 (IWM)
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Duncan
Namesake: Adam Duncan
Builder: John I. Thornycroft & Company
Laid down: 17 December 1953
Launched: 30 May 1957
Acquired: October 1958
Commissioned: 21 October 1958
Decommissioned: 1984
Identification: Pennant number: F80
Motto:
  • Secundis dubusque rectus
  • ("Upright in prosperity and peril")
Fate: Broken up February 1985
General characteristics
Class and type: Blackwood-class frigate
Displacement: 1,456 tons (1,479 tonnes) full load
Length: 310 ft (94 m)
Beam: 33 ft (10 m)
Draught: 15 ft (4.6 m)
Propulsion:
  • Y-100 plant
  • 2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers
  • steam turbines on single shaft
  • 15,000 shp (11 MW)
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h)
Range: 5,200 nautical miles (9,630 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement: 112
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Radar Type 974 navigation
  • Sonar Type 174 search
  • Sonar Type 162 target classification
  • Sonar Type 170 targeting
Armament:

HMS Duncan was the fifth RN ship named after Admiral Adam Duncan. She was a Blackwood-class frigate of the Royal Navy that served in the Cod Wars.

Service

From her first commissioning in 1958 until 1965 Duncan was the leader of the Fishery Protection Squadron. She was involved in the First Cod War between United Kingdom and Iceland over fishing rights, intervening between the Icelandic coastguard and British trawlers.

She was an escort to the royal yacht Britannia in August 1960. In 1964 Duncan fired the salute at the opening of the new Forth Road Bridge. The frigate also visited Nantes in 1961, Oslo and Reykjavík in 1963, and Copenhagen in 1965. She was given the Freedom of the city of Hull for the part the vessel played in the Cod Wars. In 1966 she completed an extensive modernisation at Rosyth Naval Dockyard and in the following year attended Portsmouth Navy Days.[1]

In 1970 Duncan was again present at Portsmouth Navy Days, by this time she was part of the Portland Training Squadron.[2]

During the early 1980s, Duncan served alongside the frigate Eastbourne as harbour training ship at Rosyth Dockyard for the marine engineering artificer apprentices from the shore base HMS Caledonia.

Commanding officers

FromToCaptain
19601962Captain George Cunningham Leslie RN
19621964Captain Richard Trowbridge RN
19671967Lieutenant Commander Peter A Pinkster RN
19671969Lieutenant-Commander Mike Forbes RN
19691970Lieutenant-Commander M F Nalder RN

Sir Robin Knox-Johnson, who in 1968 was the first person to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the Earth while also winning the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, was a watch-keeping and communications officer on Duncan from January to April of that year.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Programme, Navy Days Portsmouth, 26th-28th August 1967, HMSO, p15.
  2. ↑ Programme, Navy Days Portsmouth, 29th-31st August 1970, HMSO, p23.
  3. ↑ "Royal and Merchant Navy Days: Sir Robin Knox-Johnston". Sir Robin Knox-Johnston. Retrieved 7 June 2015.

Publications

  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
  • Marriott, Leo (1983). Royal Navy Frigates 1945-1983. Ian Allen Ltd. ISBN 07110 1322 5.
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