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|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Duncan''''' was one of fourteen [["C" and "D" Class Destroyer (1931)|"C" and "D" Class destroyers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]], and one of two that were configured as destroyer leaders, accommodating an additional thirty in complement. | |fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Duncan''''' was one of fourteen [["C" and "D" Class Destroyer (1931)|"C" and "D" Class destroyers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]], and one of two that were configured as destroyer leaders, accommodating an additional thirty in complement. | ||
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Revision as of 13:04, 24 February 2021
H.M.S. Duncan (1932) | |
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Pendant Number: | D99 |
Builder: | Portsmouth Royal Dockyard |
Launched: | 7 Jul, 1932[1] |
Broken up: | 1945[2] |
H.M.S. Duncan was one of fourteen "C" and "D" Class destroyers completed for the Royal Navy, and one of two that were configured as destroyer leaders, accommodating an additional thirty in complement.
Service
Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 5 April, 1933 for service with the First Destroyer Flotilla in the Mediterranean, bearing Captain (D).[3]
Re-commissioned at Portsmouth on 25 October, 1934 for service as flagship of the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla, operating on the China Station.[4]
Re-commissioned on 11 December, 1935 for service as flagship of the Eighth Destroyer Flotilla, operating on the China Station.[5]
Captains
- Captain Edward C. Thornton, 1 April, 1932[6] – April, 1933[7]
- Captain Harold T. Baillie-Grohman, 10 February, 1934[8] – c. late 1934[9] (and as Captain (D), First Destroyer Flotilla)
- Captain Alexander R. Hammick, c. late 1934[10] (and as Captain (D), Eighth Destroyer Flotilla, transferring in)
- Captain Richard S. Benson, 24 August, 1935[11] – 30 July, 1937 (and as Captain (D), Eighth Destroyer Flotilla)
- Captain Harold Hickling, 30 July, 1937 – July, 1939 (and as Captain (D), Eighth Destroyer Flotilla)
- Captain Geoffrey R. B. Back, 8 July, 1939[12] – 2 January, 1940[13] (and as Captain (D), Twenty-first Destroyer Flotilla)
- Commander Jocelyn S. C. Salter, 2 January, 1940[14] – 17 February, 1940[15]
- Commander Antony Fane De Salis, 17 February, 1940[16] – 18 February, 1940[17]
- Lieutenant-Commander (retired) Clive Gwinner, 18 February, 1940[18] – 12 July, 1940[19]
- Commander Arthur D. B. James, 12 July, 1940[20] – 13 February, 1941[21]
- Lieutenant-Commander Arthur N. Rowell, 13 February, 1941[22] – 25 May, 1942[23]
- Captain Hugh St. L. Nicolson, 25 May, 1942[24] – 16 December, 1942[25]
- Captain James A. McCoy, 7 August, 1942 – 4 September, 1942 (and as Captain (D), Second Destroyer Flotilla; temporary?)
- Lieutenant in Command Bernard M. Skinner, 16 December, 1942[26] – 10 March, 1943[27]
- Lieutenant-Commander (retired) Clive Gwinner, 10 March, 1943[28] – 1 April, 1943[29]
- Commander Peter W. Gretton, 12 April, 1943[30] – November, 1943[31]
- Lieutenant in Command Denis G. D. Hall-Wright, 10 April, 1944[32] – mid 1945[33]
See Also
Footnotes
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
- ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. p. 38.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 236.
- ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1935). p. 235.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 234.
- ↑ Thornton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/222. f. 592.
- ↑ Thornton Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/52/222. f. 592.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1934). p. 235.
- ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 3 Nov. 1934, p. 21.
- ↑ "Naval Appointments." The Times (London, England), 3 Nov. 1934, p. 21.
- ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1937). p. 234.
- ↑ Uboat.net page on the ship.
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