HMS Duncan (F80) HMS Duncan (F80) HMS "Duncan" was the fifth RN ship named after Admiral Adam Duncan. She was a of the Royal Navy that served in the Cod Wars. From her first commissioning in 1958 until 1965 "Duncan" was the leader of the Fishery Protection Squadron. She was involved in the First Cod War between United Kingdom and Iceland over fishing rights, intervening between the Icelandic coastguard and British trawlers. She was an escort to the royal yacht in August 1960. In 1964 "Duncan" fired the salute at the opening of the new Forth Road Bridge. The frigate also visited Nantes
Harold Innis and the cod fishery World from Spain." Innis shows how the cod fishery was interwoven economically with the slave trade and international markets for such other products as sugar, tobacco and rum. He argues that rivalry between the British and the colonists in New England led to the American Revolution. While his study of the fur trade focused on the continental interior with its interlocking rivers and lakes, "The Cod Fisheries" looks outward at global trade and empire showing the far-reaching effects of one staple product, both on imperial centres and on marginal colonies such as Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New England. Biographer, John