HMS Duncan (1901)

HMS Duncan dressed overall in 1908
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Duncan
Namesake:	Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan
Builder:	Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Leamouth
Cost:	£1,088,897
Laid down:	10 July 1899
Launched:	21 March 1901
Christened:	Mrs. Arnold Hills
Completed:	October 1903
Commissioned:	8 October 1903
Decommissioned:	March 1919
Nickname(s):	The Duncan-class battleships were informally known as "The Admirals"
Fate:	Sold for scrapping 18 February 1920
General characteristics
Class and type:	Duncan-class pre-dreadnought battleship
Displacement:	13,270 to 13,745 tons load 14,900 to 15,200 tons deep
Length:	432 ft (132 m)
Beam:	75 ft 6 in (23.01 m)
Draught:	25 ft 9 in (7.85 m)
Installed power:	18,000 ihp (13,000 kW)
Propulsion:	24 Belleville water tube boilers 4-cylinder triple expansion 2 shafts
Speed:	19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)
Range:	7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement:	720
Armament:	4 × BL 12-inch (304.8 mm) Mk IX guns 12 × BL 6-inch (152 mm) 45-caliber Mk VII guns 10 × 12-pounder guns 6 × 3-pounder guns 2 × machine guns 4 × 18-inch (457 mm) submerged torpedo tubes
Armour:	Belt: 7 in (180 mm) Bulkheads: 11–7 in (280–180 mm) Decks: 2–1 in (51–25 mm) Gun houses: 10–8 in (250–200 mm) Barbettes: 11–4 in (280–100 mm) Casemates: 6 in (150 mm) Conning tower: 12 in (300 mm)

HMS Duncan was the lead ship of the six-ship Duncan class of Royal Navy pre-dreadnought battleships. Commissioned in 1903, she served with the Mediterranean Fleet until 1905, at which she was transferred to the Channel Fleet. Damaged in a collision with HMS Albion in late 1905, she was damaged again when she ran aground off Lundy Island. After a further stint with the Mediterranean Fleet, in 1913 she was assigned to the 6th Battle Squadron and based at Portsmouth, where she served as a gunnery training ship.

Duncan was being refitted when World War I broke out. When the refit was completed, she conducted operations as part of the Northern Patrol, and served with her sister ships in the Channel Fleet. She left the squadron in February 1915 for a further refit after which she was assigned to the 9th Cruiser Squadron on the Finisterre-Azores-Madeira Station. In late 1915, she returned once again to the Mediterranean, conducting operations in support of the Italian Navy and then against Greek royalists. From 1917, she spent the remainder of the war in England waters as a reserve ship and was decommissioned in 1919.

HMS Duncan was laid down by Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Leamouth, on 10 July 1899, and launched on 21 March 1901 by Mrs. Hills, wife of Mr. Arnold Hills, chairman of the company. She left the Victoria Dock for Chatham in May 1902, for armament and trials, and was completed in October 1903.

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