HMS Duncan

Seven Royal Navy ships have been named HMS Duncan, after Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, hero of the Battle of Camperdown.

• HMS Duncan (1804) was the mercantile Carron, launched at Bombay Dockyard in 1792. She made three voyages from India to Britain for the British East India Company between 4 November 1795 and 17 June 1801. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1804 for service as a fifth rate and renamed her HMS Dover in 1807. She was wrecked off Madras in 1811.^[1]
• HMS Duncan (1811) was a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1811, reduced to harbour service in 1826, and broken up 1863.
• HMS Duncan (1859) was a 101-gun screw-propelled first-rate launched in 1859, employed on harbour service as HMS Pembroke in 1890, renamed HMS Tenedos in 1905, and sold in 1910.
• HMS Duncan (1901), launched in 1901, was a Duncan-class battleship that saw action against German installations on the Belgian coast in World War I and was sold in 1920.
• HMS Duncan (D99) was a D-class destroyer, launched in 1932 and scrapped in 1945.
• HMS Duncan (F80) was a Type 14 Blackwood-class frigate, launched in 1957 and in service from 1958 to 1985.
• HMS Duncan (D37) is a Type 45 destroyer launched on 11 October 2010.

A photograph of the third ship to be named HMS Duncan, taken in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Battle honours

Ships named Duncan have earned the following battle honours:

• Spartivento, 1940
• Malta Convoys, 1941
• Mediterranean, 1941
• Atlantic, 1941–45
• Diego Suarez, 1942

See also

• USS Duncan