HMS Duncan (D37)

HMS Duncan is the sixth and last of the Type 45 or Daring-class air-defence destroyers built for the Royal Navy and launched in 2010. Duncan is named after Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan (1 July 1731 – 4 August 1804), who defeated the Dutch fleet at the Battle of Camperdown on 11 October 1797. The destroyer has served in the Mediterranean, Black and Caribbean Seas and in 2019 was deployed to the Persian Gulf in response to increased tensions with Iran in the region.

HMS Duncan in 2016
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Duncan
Namesake:	Adam Duncan, Viscount Duncan of Camperdown
Ordered:	December 2000
Builder:	BAE Systems Surface Ships
Laid down:	26 January 2007
Launched:	11 October 2010
Sponsored by:	Mrs Marie Ibbotson
Commissioned:	26 September 2013[1]
Identification:	Deck code: DU Pennant number: D37 Callsign GMIC[2] IMO number: 4907880 MMSI number: 235053411
Motto:	Secundis dubusque rectus ("Upright in prosperity and peril")
Status:	In active service, as of 2019
Badge:	On a Field Red, a hunting horn silver
General characteristics
Class and type:	Type 45 guided missile destroyer
Displacement:	8,000[3] to 8,500 t (8,400 long tons; 9,400 short tons)[4][5][6]
Length:	152.4 m (500 ft 0 in)
Beam:	21.2 m (69 ft 7 in)
Draught:	7.4 m (24 ft 3 in)
Installed power:	2 × Rolls-Royce WR-21 gas turbines, 21.5 MW (28,800 shp) each 2 × Wärtsilä 12V200 diesel generators, 2 MW (2,700 shp) each[7]
Propulsion:	2 shafts integrated electric propulsion with 2 × Converteam electric motors, 20 MW (27,000 shp) each
Speed:	In excess of 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)[8]
Range:	In excess of 7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h)[8]
Complement:	191[9] (accommodation for up to 235)
Sensors and processing systems:	SAMPSON multi-function air tracking radar (Type 1045) S1850M 3-D air surveillance radar (Type 1046) Raytheon Integrated Bridge and Navigation System 2 × Raytheon AHRS INS (MINS 2) 2 × Raytheon I-band Radar (Type 1047) 1 × Raytheon E/F-band Radar (Type 1048)[10] Ultra Electronics Series 2500 Electro-Optical Gun Control System (EOGCS)[11] Ultra Electronics SML Technologies radar tracking system Ultra Electronics/EDO MFS-7000 sonar
Electronic warfare & decoys:	UAT Mod 2.0 (2.1 planned)[12] AN/SSQ-130 Ship Signal Exploitation Equipment (SSEE) Increment F cryptologic exploitation system [13] Seagnat Naval Decoy IDS300 Surface Ship Torpedo Defence
Armament:	Anti-air missiles: Sea Viper air defence system, with a 48-cell Sylver A50 VLS, for mix of up to 48: Aster 15 missiles (range 1.7–30 km) Aster 30 missiles (range 3–120 km) Anti-ship missiles: 2 × quad Harpoon launchers[N 1] Guns: 1 × BAE 4.5 inch Mk 8 naval gun 2 × Oerlikon 30 mm guns 2 × Phalanx CIWS 2 × Miniguns 6 × General purpose machine guns
Aircraft carried:	1–2 × Lynx Wildcat, armed with: 4 × anti ship missiles, or 2 × anti submarine torpedoes or 1 × Westland Merlin,[15] armed with: 4 × anti-submarine torpedoes
Aviation facilities:	Large flight deck Enclosed hangar

Characteristics

In 2014, the Royal Navy website stated that Duncan would be the first Type 45 destroyer to be armed with the Harpoon anti-ship missile system.[16] On 2 March 2015, Duncan left Portsmouth armed with Harpoon anti-ship missiles.[17]

Construction

Duncan's construction began at the BAE Systems Naval Ships (now part of BAE Systems Surface Ships) yards at Govan and Scotstoun on the River Clyde in 2006. She was launched from Govan on 11 October 2010,[18] on the 213th anniversary of the Battle of Camperdown.[19]

Duncan sailed from Scotstoun shipyard, Glasgow on 31 August 2012 to commence sea trials.[20]

Operational service

Duncan, the sixth and last Type 45 destroyer, was commissioned on 26 September 2013.[1] She entered service on 30 December 2013, four months ahead of schedule, after a period of trials and training.[21]

On 2 March 2015, Duncan left HMNB Portsmouth on her maiden deployment to the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East.[17] On 7 July 2015, Duncan joined up with the U.S. Navy Carrier Strike Group Twelve to strike the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.[22]

In April 2016, HMS Duncan was one of several Royal Navy ships exercising with the French Navy in Exercise Griffin Strike.[23] In October 2016, Duncan, escorted by the frigate HMS Richmond, was dispatched by the Ministry of Defence to intercept and "man-mark" a fleet of Russian Navy vessels, including their flagship Admiral Kuznetsov, which were passing through the English Channel on their way to Syria.[24] In November, while sailing off the coast of England, Duncan suffered a total propulsion failure and was towed back to Plymouth.[25]

Duncan sailed from Portsmouth in June 2017 to assume the role of flagship of NATO's Standing Maritime Naval Group 2 (SNMG2), operating in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.[26] Duncan was due to be relieved in September 2017 by HMS Ocean on her final deployment,[27] however Ocean was redeployed to the Caribbean Sea to provide relief to British Overseas Territories in the region in the wake of Hurricane Irma. Duncan was instead relieved by HMS Diamond which was berthed in Gibraltar en route to the Persian Gulf to relieve HMS Monmouth.[28] Duncan returned to Portsmouth on 22 September 2017.[29]

She resumed NATO duties in January 2018, visiting Mediterranean and Black Sea ports such as Constanța, Souda Bay, and Split, and again took command of SNMG2, returning to Portsmouth on 13 July 2018. In November and December 2018, Duncan featured on the Channel 5 television documentary Warship: Life at Sea, which captured everyday life on board the vessel during her NATO deployment earlier that year, including confrontations with Russian warships and aircraft, including the Russian frigate Admiral Essen. On the programme, it is frequently claimed by the ship's crew that Duncan can detect a 'tennis ball sized object moving at 3-times the speed of sound, from over 100 miles away.' [30][31][32]

In December 2018 it was announced that Duncan would be affiliated with the town of Scarborough on the Yorkshire Coast.[33]

In July 2019 Duncan visited Odessa harbour in Ukraine.[34] On 12 July 2019 she was ordered to the Persian Gulf in response to threats against British shipping by Iran. On arrival she joined with the frigate HMS Montrose in protecting cargo vessels and oil tankers.[35] In September 2019, Duncan returned to her home base at Portsmouth for a refit.[36]

Affiliations

• City of Dundee[37]
• City of Belfast[37]
• Town of Scarborough[37][33]
• Scots Guards[37]
• No1 (Fighter) Squadron RAF[37]
• Worshipful Company of Cooks[37]
• Worshipful Company of Saddlers[37]
• Friends of Camperdown House[37]
• The Mary Rose Trust[37]
• Northern Ireland Children's Hospice[37]
• Lachlan Goudie[37] (Scottish painter and son of Alexander Goudie)
• City of Duncan, BC and the Royal Naval Association Vancouver Island Branch[37]
• Glenfarclas distillery[37]
• Manchester & Salford URNU[37]
• HMS Hibernia[37]
• TS Duncan Sea Cadet Unit (Dundee)[37]
• Northern Ireland District, Sea Cadet Corps

Notes

1. The Harpoon missile is to be fitted to four of the six ships. HMS Duncan is to be the first.[14]

References

1. "Type 45 destroyer HMS Duncan 'christened' at Portsmouth Naval Base". BBC. 26 September 2013. Retrieved 26 September 2013.
2. "D-37 Duncan, Black Sea - History of visits". Retrieved 15 October 2016.
3. "Type 45 Destroyer". Royal Navy. Retrieved 6 November 2011.
4. "HMS Daring leaves Sydney after spectacular week of celebrations". Royal Navy. Retrieved 13 October 2013.
5. "For Queen and Country". Navy News (July 2012): Page 8. One hundred or so miles west of the largest city of Abidjan lies the fishing port of Sassandra, too small to accommodate 8,500-tonnes of Type 45.
6. "HMS Duncan joins US Carrier on strike operations against ISIL". Navy News. Royal Navy. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2015. As well as supporting the international effort against the ISIL fundamentalists – the 8,500-tonne warship has also joined the wider security mission in the region.
7. "HMS Daring". Wärtsilä. Archived from the original on 28 October 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2011.
8. "HMS Daring - Type 45 facts by Royal Navy.pdf". Retrieved 22 July 2016.
9. Royal Navy (11 July 2013). "A Global Force 2012/13" (PDF). Newsdesk Media. ISBN 978-1-906940-75-1. Archived from the original (pdf) on 21 September 2018. Complement as of 24 April 2013
10. "Raytheon Press Release" (PDF). 8 March 2006. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2012. Retrieved 31 January 2008.
11. "Jane's Electro-Optic Systems". 28 October 2010. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
12. "Fleet to get the latest in electronic surveillance" (PDF). DESider. Ministry of Defence. September 2012. p. 18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 September 2012.
13. "UK to buy Shaman CESM for Seaseeker SIGINT programme". IHS Janes Defense. 29 June 2014.
14. "HMS Duncan (D37)". Royal Navy.
15. "Air Defence Destroyer (T45)". Royal Navy. Archived from the original on 31 October 2007. Retrieved 20 November 2007.
16. HMS Duncan, royalnavy.mod.uk
17. "HMS Duncan sails for maiden deployment". Royal Navy. 2 March 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
18. Carrell, Severin (11 October 2010). "Down the slipway and into history: Clyde launch ends an era". Retrieved 25 July 2016.
19. "Final Destroyer launched on Clyde," BBC, 11 October 2010.
20. "Duncan, last of navy's Type 45 destroyers sets out on maiden voyage". Royal Navy. 5 September 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
21. "Royal Navy's final Type 45 destroyer enters service early". Royal Navy. 31 December 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
22. "HMS Duncan joins US Carrier on strike operations against ISIL". Royal Navy. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
23. "UK and French forces launch Exercise Griffin strike in the Solent - News stories - GOV.UK". Retrieved 25 July 2016.
24. "Russian warships pass through English Channel". Retrieved 21 October 2016.
25. "Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer towed back to port two days after it sails". The Telegraph. 24 November 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2016.
26. "Defence Secretary steps up UK commitments to NATO". Ministry of Defence. 29 June 2017. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
27. http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/hms-ocean-leaving-plymouth-last-389837
28. http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/defence/warship-to-help-with-hurricane-relief-operations-1-8143931
29. "HMS Duncan returns home after NATO deployment". Royal Navy. 25 September 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
30. "HMS Duncan returns to Portsmouth after leading NATO Deployment". Royal Navy. 13 July 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
31. Chignall, Selina (29 August 2018). "C5 commissions Artlab Films for "Warship: Life at Sea"". Realscreen. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
32. Woody, Christopher (27 November 2018). "'Good luck, guys': 17 Russian jets buzzed a British destroyer and left a threatening message earlier this year". Business Insider. Retrieved 17 December 2018.
33. "Scarborough Gets Warship". Yorkshire Coast Radio. 28 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
34. "HMS Duncan in Odessa on international exercise | Royal Navy". www.royalnavy.mod.uk. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
35. "Iran tanker row: UK to send second warship to the Gulf". BBC News. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
36. "Royal Navy destroyer returns from defending British shipping in Hormuz Strait". BT Group. 28 September 2019. Retrieved 28 September 2019.
37. "List of HMS Duncan affiliations". Royal Navy website. Retrieved 8 November 2013.

External links

• Royal Navy HMS Duncan (royalnavy.mod.uk)