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HMS Duckworth (K351) was a Captain-class frigate of the Royal Navy.She served during the Second World War as a convoy escort and anti-submarine warfare vessel in the Battle of the Atlantic and was an effective U-boat killer, being credited with the destruction of five U-boats during the conflict.
The Blue Chip 30 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig; a spooned, raked stem with a bowsprit; a raised counter, angled transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller and a fixed long keel. It displaces 7,000 lb (3,175 kg) and carries 3,250 lb (1,474 kg) of lead ballast.
The Santander 30 is a British sailboat that was designed by American William H. Tripp Jr. as a racer-cruiser and first built in 1966. [1] [2] [3]The design is a development of the Tripp 30, which was built by Mechans Ltd in the United Kingdom and by Werkspoor in the Netherlands starting in 1963, with 30 boats completed.
The Olson 30 is a sailboat designed by George Olson of Santa Cruz, CA around 1978. Olson was a surfer and surfboard shaper who decided to design a 30' ultra light displacement boat while on a delivery from Honolulu to Santa Cruz on Merlin, a 68' Bill Lee designed and built [1] ultralight sailboat which had competed in the biennial Transpac race in 1977.
The boat sank the Dutch-registered Pacific on 26 March 1945. This ship had taken part in Operation Dynamo, the Dunkirk evacuation, in 1940. U-399 was sunk later on the same day by depth charges from the British frigate HMS Duckworth. [2] Forty-six men died in U-399; there was one survivor.
Hunter Marine was an American boat builder, now known as Marlow-Hunter, LLC, owned by David E. Marlow.The company did produce the Mainship powerboat brand. Marlow also owns and manufactures the Marlow Yachts brand consisting of long range power cruisers in the 37 to 110 foot range.
SC 143 left Halifax on 28 September 1943 bound for Liverpool It was composed of 39 ships and was escorted by C-2 escort group comprising the destroyer HMS Icarus, frigate Duckworth and 5 corvettes. Also accompanying the convoy was the MAC carrier Rapana .
Duckworth abandoned the blockade in pursuit of a French squadron reported to have been in the Atlantic near Madeira. Duckworth came across another squadron in the West Indies which lead the Battle of San Domingo , (the last fleet battle of the age of sail on the open sea) in which the English destroyed or captured nearly the entirety of the ...