HMS Porlock Bay
Service
- as HMS Porlock Bay14 February 1946 — January 1949
- as Matti Kurki1962 — 1975
- Name
- HMS Porlock Bay
- Pennant / hull number
- K650
- Builder
- Charles Hill & Sons, Bristol
- Laid down
- 22 November 1944
- Launched
- 14 June 1945
- Commissioned
- 14 February 1946
- Decommissioned
- January 1949
- Fate
- Sold for demolition in September 1975; final stripping carried out in 1976 (1975)
- Status
- Unknown
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,600 long tons (1,626 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 2,530 long tons (2,571 t)
- Length
- 93.57 m (307 ft) OA
- Beam
- 11.58 m (38 ft)
- Draught
- 3.66 m (12 ft)
- Speed
- 19.5 knots (36.1 km/h, 22.4 mph)
- Range
- 9,500 nmi (17,594 km)
- Complement
- 157
- Main gun
- 40 mm (1.6 in)
HMS Porlock Bay was a Bay-class frigate in service with the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number K650. Charles Hill & Sons, Bristol laid her keel on 22 November 1944. She entered service on 14 February 1946, having been launched on 14 June 1945.
Two ships of the class were built. The class followed the Loch class.
She displaced 1,600 long tons standard and 2,530 long tons at full load. She measured 93.6 m (307 ft) long with a beam of 11.6 m (38 ft). Her designed speed was 19.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 157.
Her main battery was four 40 mm (1.6 in) guns.
She served with the Royal Navy as HMS Porlock Bay until January 1949. She then passed to the Finnish Navy, serving as Matti Kurki from 1962. She was decommissioned in January 1949.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 × Admiralty three-drum boilers
- 2 shafts
- 2 × four-cylinder vertical triple-expansion steam engines
- 5500 ihp
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4-inch Mk XVI guns in two twin HA/LA Mk XIX mountings
- 4 × 40 mm Bofors guns in two twin Mk V mountings
- 4 × 20 mm Oerlikon guns in two twin mountings
- 1 × Hedgehog 24-barrel anti-submarine projector
- 4 × depth-charge throwers
- 2 × depth-charge rails
- 50 × depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Porlock Bay on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Friend of HMS Porlock Bay — Own work — CC BY-SA 4.0 — Wikimedia Commons