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Hundreds Welcome Back The Royal Navy's Youngest Ship
The Royal Navy's newest warship has been welcomed home from her maiden deployment.
Type 45 Destroyer HMS Duncan has spent nine months away, many of them in the Middle East.
Hundreds of friends and family members of the ship's company were in Portsmouth to welcome her home.
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THE FACTS
- The UK’s newest warship left the UK in March and has sailed 43,000 nautical miles and visited 14 countries.
- She has policed busy shipping lanes in seven different seas and two oceans while providing protection for the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt during air strikes against ISIL.
- Working with the carrier in the northern Gulf, HMS Duncan used her state-of-the-art Samson radar to monitor air traffic.
- HMS Duncan also fired 90,000 bullets during exercises with a number of other navies and coastguards including live gunnery training against floating targets with warships from US and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.
- HMS Duncan’s Lynx helicopter, from 815 Squadron based at Royal Naval Air Station Yeovilton in Somerset, also played a key role in the deployment - monitoring hundreds of square miles for small vessels by day and night.
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