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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Blackwood|frigate}} | Ship displacement=1,456 tons (1,479 tonnes) full load | 310|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 33|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 15|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship power= | Ship propulsion=*Y-100 plant- 2 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers
- steam turbines on single shaft
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- Sonar Type 162 target classification
- Sonar Type 170 targeting
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}} | HMS Duncan was the fifth RN ship named after Admiral Adam Duncan. She was a {{sclass-|Blackwood|frigate}} of the Royal Navy that served in the Cod Wars. ServiceFrom 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 {{ship|HMY|Britannia||2}} 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 {{HMS|Eastbourne|F73|2}} 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 | 1969 | Lieutenant-Commander Mike Forbes RN | | 1969 | 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]References1. ^Programme, Navy Days Portsmouth, 26th-28th August 1967, HMSO, p15.
2. ^Programme, Navy Days Portsmouth, 29th-31st August 1970, HMSO, p23.
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.robinknox-johnston.co.uk/da/20105 |publisher=Sir Robin Knox-Johnston |title=Royal and Merchant Navy Days: Sir Robin Knox-Johnston |accessdate=7 June 2015}}
Publications- {{colledge}}
- {{cite book |last=Marriott |first=Leo |date=1983 |title=Royal Navy Frigates 1945-1983 |publisher=Ian Allan Ltd |isbn=07110 1322 5}}
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