Construction
Duchess was laid down by John I. Thornycroft and Company of Woolston at Southampton on 8 July 1948.(I) She was launched on 9 April 1951 by Countess Edwina Mountbatten, and commissioned into the Royal Navy on 23 October 1952.
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