Royal Navy — Frigate
HMS Byard
Service
- 18 June 1943 — 12 December 1945807 days of the war
Captain-class frigate
Particulars
- Name
- HMS Byard
- Laid down
- 15 October 1942
- Launched
- 6 March 1943
- Commissioned
- 18 June 1943
- Decommissioned
- 12 December 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrap in 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)
- Complement
- 170
HMS Byard was a Captain-class frigate built for the Royal Navy. Her keel was laid on 15 October 1942. She entered service on 18 June 1943, having been launched on 6 March 1943.
Her class ran to 46 ships.
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 807 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 12 December 1945.
She was broken up for scrap in 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 Balfour
- HMS Bayntun
- HMS Bentley
- HMS Berry
- HMS Blackwood (K313)
- HMS Braithwaite
- HMS Bullen
- HMS Burges (K347)
- 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 Byard on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Unknown author — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons