HMS Duncan (F80)
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 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, Oslo and Reykjavík in 1963, and Copenhagen in 1965. She was given the Freedom of the city of Hull for the part she 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 she was again present at Portsmouth Navy Days, by this time she was part of the Portland Training Squadron.[2]
During the early 1980s, HMS Duncan served alongside HMS Eastbourne as harbour training ship at Rosyth Dockyard for the marine engineering artificer apprentices from the shore base HMS Caledonia.
Commanding officers
| From | To | Captain |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 1962 | Captain George Cunningham Leslie RN |
| 1962 | 1964 | Captain Richard Trowbridge RN |
| 1967 | 1967 | Lieutenant Commander Peter A Pinkster RN |
| 1970 | 1970 | Lieutenant-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 HMS Duncan from January to April of that year.[3]
References
- ↑ Programme, Navy Days Portsmouth, 26th-28th August 1967, HMSO, p15.
- ↑ Programme, Navy Days Portsmouth, 29th-31st August 1970, HMSO, p23.
- ↑ http://www.robinknox-johnston.co.uk/da/20105
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.
- Marriot, Leo, 1983. Royal Navy Frigates 1945-1983, Ian Allen Ltd. ISBN 07110 1322 5
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