HMS Duncan - D37




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:
Motto:
  • Secundis dubusque rectus
  • ("Upright in prosperity and peril")
Status: In active service, as of 2017
Badge:
  • On a Field Red, a hunting horn silver
  • HMS Duncan crest.jpg
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:
Propulsion:
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:
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
Armament:
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

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