Ship Details

Duncansby Head (H.M.S.)

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Registry #1 (RN) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1945 Duncansby Head (H.M.S.) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1945 Place North Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 424.6' x 57.2' x 34.9'
Builder Burrard Drydock Co. Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement 8580
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Freighter, (Victory-type)
Registered Tonnage Type 2 Escort Maintenance Ship
Engine 2500ihp Dominion steam reciprocating engine Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1945 she was owned by the Royal Navy as an Escort Maintenance Ship. In 1960 she was a HQ ship for the Reserve Fleet at Rosyth Scotland. In 1962 she was recommissioned at Rosyth with Girdle Ness as H.M.S. Cochrane.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name Headland at the northeast tip of Scotland.
 
Anecdotes
 
 
References
Heal, S.C. (1999); J.J. Colledge and Ben Warlow (2010) Ships of the Royal Navy. Casemate Oxford UK;
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