HMS Duncan (F80)
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| Ordered | . |
| Laid Down | . |
| Launched | May 1957 |
| Commissioned | 21 October 1958 |
| Decommissioned | 1984 |
| Fate | Cut up in February 1985 |
| General Characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,456 tons full load |
| Length: | 310 ft (94.5 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught: | 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, 1 steam turbine (Exmouth later had gas turbine), 2 boilers, 15,000 shp |
| Speed: | 27 knots (50 km/h) |
| Range: | 5,200 nautical miles at 12 knots (9,630 km at 22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 112 |
| Armament: | Three 40 mm Mk 9 Bofors (one aft 40 mm later removed) Two Limbo ASW mortars |
| Motto: | Secundis dubusque rectus (Upright in prosperity and peril) |
HMS Duncan was the fifth and final Duncan, named after Admiral Adam Duncan. She was a Blackwood class frigate of the Royal Navy that served in the Cod Wars.
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 as an escort to HMY Britannia in August 1960. In 1964 she firing the salute at the opening of the new Forth Road Bridge. She also visited Nantes in 1961 and Copenhagen in 1965.
Given freedom of the city of Hull for the part she played in the Cod Wars.
See HMS Duncan for other ships of this name.
External links
- Mod news item with info (http://news.mod.uk/news/press/news_headline_story.asp?newsItem_id=1475)
| Blackwood-class frigate |
| Blackwood | Duncan | Dundas | Exmouth | Grafton | Hardy | Keppel | Malcolm | Murray | Palliser | Pellew | Russell |
| List of frigates of the Royal Navy |