HMS ST BRIDES BAY

British

Name: HMS St Brides Bay (K600/F600)
Namesake: St Brides Bay
Ordered: 2 May 1943
Builder: Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Yard number: 1250
Laid down: 2 May 1944
Launched: 16 January 1945
Completed: 15 June 1945
Commissioned: June 1945
Decommissioned: 16 December 1961
Honours and
awards: KOREA 1950-53
Fate: Sold for scrapping, 1962
Badge: On a Field White, on a lozenge Blue, surrounded by flames proper, a celestial crown Gold.
General characteristics
Class & type: Bay-class frigate
Displacement: 1,600 long tons (1,626 t) standard
2,530 long tons (2,571 t) full
Length: 286 ft (87 m) p/p
307 ft 3 in (93.65 m) o/a
Beam: 38 ft 6 in (11.73 m)
Draught: 12 ft 9 in (3.89 m)
Propulsion: 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, 4-cylinder vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW)
Speed: 19.5 knots (36.1 km/h; 22.4 mph)
Range: 724 tons oil fuel, 9,500 nmi (17,600 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement: 157
Sensors and
processing systems: • Type 285 fire control radar
• Type 291 air warning radar
• Type 276 target indication radar
• High Frequency Direction Finder (HF/DF)
• IFF transponder
Armament: • 4 × QF 4 inch Mark XVI guns on 2 twin mounting HA/LA Mk.XIX
• 4 × 40 mm Bofors A/A on 2 twin mounts Mk.V
4 × 20 mm Oerlikon A/A on 2 twin mounts Mk.V
• 1 × Hedgehog 24 barrel A/S projector
• 2 rails and 4 throwers for 50 depth charges

Details: Wikipedia

Photo Credits: The Alexander Turnbull Library New Zealand