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Bay Class

Name	Builders	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned
K606 / F06 Bigbury Bay	H	30th May 1944	16th November 1944	10th July 1945
K622 / F622	C	21st September 1944	3rd March 1945	20th September 1945
K630 / F630 Cardigan Bay	R	14th April 1944	28th December 1944	25th June 1945
K636 / F636 Carnarvon Bay	R	8th June 1944	15th March 1945	20th September 1945
K644 / F644 Cawsand Bay	B	24th April 1944	26th February 1945	13th November 1945
K647 / F647 Dundrum Bay / Alert	B	28th July 1944	10th July 1945	24th October 1946
K453 / F35 Enards Bay	S	27th May 1944	31st October 1944	4th January 1946
K436 / F436 Gerrans Bay / Surprise	S	21st April 1944	14th March 1945	9th September 1945
K423 / F423 Largo Bay	P	8th February 1944	3rd October 1944	26th January 1946
K624 / F624 Morecambe Bay	P	30th March 1944	1st November 1944	22nd February 1949
K627 / F627 Mounts Bay	P	23rd October 1944	8th June 1945	11th April 1944
K608 / F608 Padstow Bay	R	25th September 1944	24th August 1945	11th March 1946
K650 / F650 Porlock Pay	C	22nd November 1944	14th June 1945	8th March 1946
K634 / F634 St. Austell Bay	W	30th May 1944	18th November 1944	29th May 1945
K600 F600 St. Brides Bay	W	30th May 1944	16th January 1945	15th June 1945
K604 / F604 Start Bay	W	31st August 1944	15th February 1945	6th September 1945
K605 / F605 Tremadoc Bay	W	31st August 1944	29th March 1945	11th October 1945
K651 / F651 Veryan Bay	C	8th June 1944	16th December 1944	30th July 1945
K633 / F633 Whitesand Bay	W	8th August 1944	16th December 1944	30th July 1945
K615 / F615 Widemouth Bay	W	26th April 1944	19th October 1944	13th April 1945
K616 / F616 Wigtown Bay	W	24th October 1944	26th April 1945	19th January 1946

Builders:
B : Blyth Shipbuilding, Blyth, United Kingdom
C : Charles Hill & Sons, Bristol, United Kingdom
H : Hall Russel, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
P : W. Pickersgill, Sunderland, United Kingdom
R : H. Robb, Leith, United Kingdom
S : Smiths Dock, Middlesborough, United Kingdom
W : Harland & Wolff, Belfast, United Kingdom

Dimensions:
307' x 38' 6" x 12' 9" / 63.57m x 11.70m x 3.90m

Displacement:
1600 tons std / 2530 tons max

Complement:
157

Armament:
Dundrum Bay & Gerrans Bay:-
2 x 4" guns in a Mk XVI twin mounting
2 x 40mm guns in single mountings

All other ships:-
4 x 4" guns in a two Mk XVI twin mountings
6 x 40mm guns in two twin and two single mountings
1 x Hedgehog AS mortar

Mines rails and depth charge throwers were also fitted.

Aircraft Facilities:
None fitted.

Armour:
None known.

Powerplant:
Two Admiralty 3 drum 225psi boilers were fitted driving two four cylinder triple expansion engines providing a total of 5500ihp on two shafts.

Maximum speed was 19.5kts and the maximum fuel load was 720 tons oil.

Electronics Fit:
Radar:
Type 285 gunnery control
Type 291 air search
Type 293 target designator

Sonar:
Hull mounted

Other:
N/A

Miscellaneous: