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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.
Robinson Duckworth CVO VD (4 December 1834 – 20 September 1911) was a British priest, who was present on the original boating expedition of 4 July 1862 during which Alice's adventures were first told by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson).
These operations continued uninterrupted until 8 February, when Duckworth sent boats from Acasta and Magicienne to the wrecks. Boarding unopposed, the boat parties removed the remaining French crewmen as prisoners and set both ships on fire to deny their potential use to the French, although Leissègues had in fact already issued orders for ...
HMS Duckworth can refer to: HMS Duckworth (BDE-19) a destroyer escort under construction in the US but completed in May 1943 for the USN as USS Burden R. Hastings . HMS Duckworth (K351) a destroyer escort laid down as USS Gary (DE-61) but transferred on completion in August 1943 to the RN as a Captain-class frigate .
Duckworth's Action off San Domingo, 6 February 1806, painted by Nicholas Pocock.. The Battle of San Domingo was the last fleet engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, contested off the Southern coast of the Spanish colonial Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, then under French occupation, on 6 February 1806.
Duckworth withdrew from the blockade of Cadiz in November 1805, and inadequate replacements were provided by Collingwood. In February 1806, a British plan to lure the French squadron out of port by withdrawing all of the available forces except the frigate HMS Hydra and a brig backfired when a storm blew Hydra out of position on 26 February ...