Editing HMS Duncan

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[[File:HMS_Duncan,_Halifax,_Nova_Scotia_c._1865.png | thumb |right | A photograph of the third ship to be named HMS ''Duncan'', taken in Halifax, Nova Scotia]]
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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]].
* [[Carron (1792 ship)|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.<ref>Hackman (2001), p.227.</ref>
* {{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 {{sclass|Duncan|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 [[C and D-class destroyer|D-class]] [[destroyer]], launched in 1932 and scrapped in 1945.
* {{HMS|Duncan|F80}} was a [[Blackwood-class frigate|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.

==Battle honours==
Ships named ''Duncan'' have earned the following [[Battle honour#Naval battle honours|battle honours]]:
*[[Battle of Cape Spartivento|Spartivento]], 1940
*[[Malta Convoys]], 1941
*[[Battle of the Mediterranean|Mediterranean]], 1941
*[[Battle of the Atlantic|Atlantic]], 1941–45
*[[Battle of Madagascar|Diego Suarez]], 1942

== See also ==
* {{USS|Duncan}}

==Citations==
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==References==
*Hackman, Rowan (2001) ''Ships of the East India Company''. (Gravesend, Kent: World Ship Society). {{ISBN|0-905617-96-7}}

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