HMS Enard Bay
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Enard Bay |
| Builder | Smiths Dock Company, South Bank, Middlesbrough |
| Laid down | 27 May 1944 |
| Launched | 31 October 1944 |
| Commissioned | 4 January 1946 |
| Decommissioned | January 1947 (not correct. should be later than mid 1954; possibly 1957) |
| Identification | pennant number K435 |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping, 1957 |
| Badge | On a Field Green a fess wavy of six White and Blue charged with three roundels Black. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Bay-class frigate |
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| Length | |
| 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 |
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HMS Enard Bay was a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, named for Enard Bay in Caithness.
The ship was originally ordered from the Smiths Dock Company of South Bank, Middlesbrough on 25 January 1943 as the Loch-class frigate Loch Bracadale, and laid down on 27 May 1944. However the contract was then changed, and the ship was completed to a revised design as a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate, launched on 31 October 1944, and completed on 4 January 1946.