HMS Duncan (1804)

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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.Hackman (2001), p.227.
* was a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1811, reduced to harbour service in 1826, and broken up 1863.
* 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.
* , launched in 1901, was a that saw action against German installations on the Belgian coast in World War I and was sold in 1920.
* was a D-class destroyer, launched in 1932 and scrapped in 1945.
* was a Type 14 ''Blackwood''-class frigate, launched in 1957 and in service from 1958 to 1985.
* is a Type 45 destroyer launched on 11 October 2010.

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

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Citations

References

*Hackman, Rowan (2001) ''Ships of the East India Company''. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society).

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