HMS Duncan (F80)

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Career RN Ensign
Ordered .
Laid Down .
Launched May 1957
Commissioned 21 October 1958
Decommissioned 1984
Fate Cut up in February 1985
Motto: Secundis dubusque rectus (Upright in prosperity and peril)
This is a page about an individual ship, for general information please see: Blackwood class frigate

HMS Duncan was the fifth 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 was an escort to HMY Britannia in August 1960. In 1964 she fired the salute at the opening of the new Forth Road Bridge. She also visited Nantes in 1961 and Copenhagen in 1965.

She was given the Freedom of the city of Hull for the part she played in the Cod Wars.

See HMS Duncan for other ships of this name.

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Blackwood-class frigate
Blackwood | Duncan | Dundas | Exmouth | Grafton | Hardy | Keppel | Malcolm | Murray | Palliser | Pellew | Russell

List of frigates of the Royal Navy