Royal Navy — Frigate class
Bay-class frigate
Bay class
The class in numbers
- 26 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Frigate
- Navy
- Royal Navy
- In commission
- 1945–1971
- Preceded by
- Loch class
- Builders
- Charles Hill & Sons
- Henry Robb
- Blyth Dry Dock
- Smiths Dock
- William Pickersgill
- Harland & Wolff
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,600 long tons (1,626 t)
- Length
- 93.57 m (307 ft) OA
- Speed
- 19.5 knots (36.1 km/h, 22.4 mph)
- Complement
- 157
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
- 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
Roster
Holding 2 of the 26 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Jervis Bay | 1940 | Sunk 1940 | |
| HMS Porlock Bay | K650 | 1946 | 1975 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Bay-class frigate on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.