* October 9 – War of 1812: American naval forces under Lieutenant Jesse Duncan Elliott capture two British warships, and HMS Caledonia.

Duncan Smith was educated at St. Peter's RC Secondary School, Solihull until the age of 14, 6 years before that school was created in 1974 and was subsequently educated at HMS Conway, a merchant navy training school on the isle of Anglesey ( where he allegedly played rugby union in the position of fly-half alongside Clive Woodward at centre ) until he was 18.

** HMS Duncan ( D37 ) ( not yet in service )

In 1780 Robert joined HMS Monarch of which his maternal uncle, Adam Duncan, was in command.

* HMS Duncan ( multiple )

As a commander Duncan had no further service, but on 25 February 1761 he was posted and appointed to the HMS Valiant, fitting for Keppel's broad pennant.

Duncan, with the main body of the fleet, was at the time lying at Great Yarmouth revictualling, the Texel being watched by a small squadron under Captain Henry Trollope in HMS Russell, from whom he received early information of the Dutch being at sea.

* Several ships have been named HMS Duncan after him.

Seven Royal Navy ships have been named HMS Duncan, after Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, hero of the Battle of Camperdown.

* HMS Duncan was built as the East Indiaman Carron, purchased upon completion in 1804, renamed HMS Dover in 1807 and wrecked in 1811.

* HMS Duncan was a 74-gun third-rate launched in 1811, reduced to harbour service in 1826, and broken up 1863.

* HMS Duncan was a 101-gun screw-propelled first-rate launched in 1859, employed on harbour service as HMS Pembroke in 1890, renamed HMS Tenedos in 1905, and sold in 1910.

* HMS Duncan was a D-class destroyer, launched in 1932 and scrapped in 1945.

* HMS Duncan was a Type 14 frigate in service from 1957 to 1985.

* HMS Duncan was announced in 2002 to be the sixth ship in the Type 45 destroyer class.

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* HMS Auriga ( P419 ), a British submarine launched in 1945

* 1860 – The first British seagoing iron-clad warship, HMS Warrior is launched.

* was a 91-gun second-rate ship of the line, originally laid down as HMS Edgar, but renamed in 1848 and launched in 1859.

In 1906, the revolutionary HMS Dreadnought launched a great naval race worldwide.

In 1808, the Royal Navy launched a 36-gun Fifth Rate frigate, which it named the HMS Owen Glendower.

This class of German boats could be highly effective, as in the action in which the British cruiser HMS Charybdis was sunk off Brittany by a torpedo salvo launched by the Elbing-class torpedo boats T23 and T27.

* May 3 – The light aircraft carrier HMS Invincible is launched at Barrow-in-Furness by Elizabeth II.

* October 16 – HMS Queen Elizabeth launched at Portsmouth Dockyard as the first oil-fired battleship.

* October 13 – The HMS Canopus ( 1898 ), a pre-Dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy, is launched at Portsmouth, England ( will be deployed widely in World War I ).

** Britain's second Polaris missile submarine, HMS Renown, is launched.

* December 29 – The world's first ocean-going ( all ) iron-hulled and armoured battleship, the ( British ) HMS Warrior, is launched.

* May 11, 1820 – The HMS Beagle ( the ship that later takes young Charles Darwin on his scientific voyage ) is launched.

* HMS Birmingham ( 1913 ), a Town-class light cruiser launched in 1913 and sold in 1931

* HMS Birmingham ( C19 ), a cruiser launched in 1936 and broken up in 1960

* The first HMS Vanguard is launched in England.

** HMS Sunfish ( 1895 ), the first Sunfish destroyer, launched in 1895

** HMS Sunfish ( 81S ), an S-Class submarine, launched in 1936

In its time, many thousands of men were employed at the dockyard, and many hundreds of vessels were launched there, including HMS Victory which was built there in the 1760s.

* HMS Fairfield, a Royal Navy Hunt class minesweeper launched in 1919

* HMS Grafton was a 70-gun third-rate ship of the line launched in 1679, rebuilt in 1700, and captured by the French in 1707.

* HMS Grafton, a 70-gun third rate launched in 1709, rebuilt in 1725 and broken up in 1744

* HMS Grafton, a 74-gun third rate launched in 1771

* HMS Grafton, a G-class destroyer launched in 1935 and torpedoed in 1940

* HMS Grafton, a Blackwood-class ( Type 14 ) frigate launched in 1957 and broken up in 1971

* HMS Hermione was a 32-gun fifth-rate frigate of the British Royal Navy, launched in 1782, notorious for the mutiny which took place aboard her.