Royal Navy — Frigate
HMS Balfour
Service
- 17 October 1943 — 25 October 1945686 days of the war
Captain-class frigate
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Balfour
- Builder
- Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard
- Laid down
- 19 April 1943
- Launched
- 10 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 17 October 1943
- Decommissioned
- 25 October 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrap 28 October 1946 (1946)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, full load
- 1,800 long tons (1,829 t)
- Length
- 93.27 m (306 ft) OA
- Beam
- 11.13 m (36.5 ft)
- Draught
- 3.35 m (11 ft)
- Speed
- 24 knots (44.4 km/h, 27.6 mph)
- Range
- 5,500 nmi (10,186 km)
- Complement
- 170
HMS Balfour was a Captain-class frigate in service with the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid at Bethlehem Hingham Shipyard on 19 April 1943. She entered service on 17 October 1943, having been launched on 10 July 1943.
46 ships of the class were built.
She displaced 1,800 long tons. She measured 93.3 m (306 ft) long with a beam of 11.1 m (37 ft). Her designed speed was 24 knots, and she carried a complement of 170.
She was in commission for 686 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 25 October 1945.
She was broken up for scrap on 28 October 1946.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Sister ships
- HMS Affleck
- HMS Aylmer
- HMS Bayntun
- HMS Bentley
- HMS Berry
- HMS Blackwood (K313)
- HMS Braithwaite
- HMS Bullen
- HMS Burges (K347)
- HMS Byard
- HMS Capel (K470)
- HMS Cooke
- HMS Cotton
- HMS Cranstoun
- HMS Cubitt
- HMS Curzon (K513)
- HMS Dacres
- HMS Deane
- HMS Domett
- HMS Drury
- HMS Essington (K353)
- HMS Foley (K474)
- HMS Gardiner
- HMS Garlies
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Balfour on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 1338 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons