USS Duncan FFG 10 / Vice Admiral Donald B. Duncan / Oliver Hazard Perry class Guided Missile Frigate
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Guided Missile Frigate

FFG 10   -   USS Duncan

USS Duncan (FFG 10)

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Type, Class:

 

Guided Missile Frigate; Oliver Hazard Perry – class (short hull);

planned and ordered as PF 112; reclassified and built as FFG 10;

Builder:

 

Todd Pacific Shipyard, Seattle, Washington, USA

STATUS:

 

Awarded: February 27, 1976;

Laid down: April 29, 1977;

Launched: March 1, 1978;

Commissioned: May 15, 1980;

Decommissioned: December 17, 1994;

 

Fate: stricken January 5, 1998;

sold to Turkey on May 4, 1999 as a parts hulk for spare parts;

Homeport:

 

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Namesake:

 

Named after and in honor of Vice Admiral Donald B. Duncan (1896 – 1975);

> see history, below;

Ship's Motto:

 

> VIRTUS VELOX < 'vigilant and swift'

Technical Data:

(Measures, Propulsion,

Armament, Aviation, etc.)

 

see: INFO > Guided Missile Frigate / Oliver Hazard Perry - class.

 

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Donald B. Duncan

 

 

Photo credits: US Navy, US Naval Historical Center

 

Namesake & History:

Vice Admiral Donald B. Duncan (1896 – 1975);

 

Vice Admiral Donald B. Duncan (1896-1975) was an officer of the United States Navy, who played an important role in aircraft-carrier operations during World War II.


In 1941, he was the first commander of the USS Long Island, the Navy's first escort aircraft carrier.
As the air operations officer to Admiral Ernest J. King, Duncan assisted with the planning for the Doolittle Raid, and was the one who proposed the use of both the B-25 Mitchell bombers and the Hornet (CV-8) for the raid. He was then appointed to be the first commanding officer of the carrier Essex (CV-9).

Duncan held several important staff and operational positions following the war. He served as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air) from 6 March 1947 to 20 January 1948. He commanded the 2nd Task Fleet after 1948, and was the Vice Chief of Naval Operations from 1951 to 1956.

 

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