HMS Duncan (F80)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Duncan.

History
HMS Duncan, July 1968 (IWM)
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

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

From	To	Captain
1960	1962	Captain George Cunningham Leslie RN
1962	1964	Captain Richard Trowbridge RN
1967	1967	Lieutenant Commander Peter A Pinkster RN
1967	1970	Commander Francis CS Payce-Drury 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 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.
↑ "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.

Blackwood-class frigates

Royal Navy	Dundas Hardy Grafton Keppel Pellew Russell Murray Blackwood Malcolm Exmouth Palliser Duncan

Indian Navy	Khukri Kirpan Kuthar

Preceded by: Type 16 frigates Followed by: Whitby class

List of frigates of the Royal Navy List of frigates of the Indian Navy

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