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<div name=fredbot:career>
{{ShipCareer|fullname=H.M.S. ''Duchess'' (1932)|fatedate=12 Dec, 1939{{Conways1922|p. 38}}
|order=
|name=Duchess
|launch=19 Jul, 1932{{Conways1922|p. 38}}
|builder=[[Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company]]
|fate=Collision
|pend=H64
|fg=white|bg=crimson}}</div name=fredbot:career>'''H.M.S. ''Duchess''''' was one of fourteen [["C" and "D" Class Destroyer (1931)|"C" and "D" Class destroyers]] completed for the [[Royal Navy]].

==Service==

Re-commissioned at Chatham on 30 March, 1933 for service with the {{UK-DF|1}} in the Mediterranean.{{NLJul34|p. 235}}

Re-commissioned at Chatham on 25 October, 1934 for service with the {{UK-DF|8}}, operating on the [[China Station]].{{NLOct35|p. 235}}

Re-commissioned on 11 December, 1935 for service with the {{UK-DF|8}}, operating on the [[China Station]].{{NLJul37|p. 234}}

On 12 December 1939 ''Duchess'' collided with the {{UK-Barham|f=t}} which she was escorting to the Clyde as they were nearing their destination north of Belfast.  The destroyer was cut in half with heavy loss of life.

==Captains==
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{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Laurence James Dover|nick=Laurence J. Dover|appt=3 October, 1932{{NLJul34|p. 235}}|end=c. late 1934|precBy=New Command}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Archibald Boyd Russell|nick=Archibald B. Russell|appt=5 January, 1935{{NLOct35|p. 235}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=William Thomas Warren Curtis|nick=William T. W. Curtis|appt=27 August, 1936{{NLJul37|p. 234}}|end=}}
{{Tenure|rank={{LCommRN}}|name=Robert Charles Meadows White|nick=Robert C. M. White|appt=28 September, 1938{{UBAllyWarship|4373}}|end=12 December, 1939{{UBAllyWarship|4373}}|succBy=Vessel Lost|note=killed when ship lost under his command}}
</div name=fredbot:officeCapt>

==See Also==
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{{WP|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Duchess_(H64)}}
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==Footnotes==
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