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HMS Duncan to help Liverpool
celebrate Armed Forces Day
HMS Duncan has welcome members of the
public onboard as it helped Liverpool celebrate Armed Forces Day. The Type 45
Destroyer was berthed alongside Liverpool Cruise Terminal, from
22 June 2016, until 27 June 2016. It was open to visitors on
both Saturday and Sunday. During its visit it will also hosted students from
Christ the King College, Academy of St Francis of Assisi, Priestly College.
1 of the sailors, Engineering Technician (Communications Information Systems)
Amanda Davies, aged 23, from Huyton is a former Sea Cadet with Huyton with Roby
Sea Cadets; TS Iron Duke. The former Knowsley Community College Roby Campus
pupil was looking forward to showing current members and loved ones around HMS
Duncan. She said:- "It was very a proud moment for me to show of the
latest and best Type 45 Destroyer to friends and family in my home Town."
Members of the crew will attend the opening of
Hugh Baird College's Port Academy in Bootle tomorrow and play golf at West
Lancashire Golf Club, while the Commanding Officer Commander Charles Guy, will
be among guests at the Arnold Palmer Cup opening ceremony and dinner at Formby
Golf Club, that evening.
Commander Guy said:- "I am delighted to be able to bring the Navy's newest
operational warship into Liverpool for Armed Forces Day 2016. I have 10 members
of my ship's company that hail from Merseyside and even for the rest of us, a
warship coming up the Mersey feels like something of a homecoming.
For the Battle of the Atlantic, Liverpool was on the front line and I will make
sure I personally pay my respects at the statue of Captain Frederic 'Johnnie'
Walker, RN at the Pier Head. On Saturday, Armed Forces Day, we will be
representing the Royal Navy alongside at the Cruise Terminal. Members of the
public will have the chance to come and see HMS Duncan and to meet some of my
sailors in person."
For more information about the Royal Navy please visit their website at:-
RoyalNavy.MOD.UK.
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