HMS Largo Bay (K423)

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Naval Ensign of the United Kingdom.svgUnited Kingdom
NameHMS Largo Bay
Namesake Largo Bay
BuilderWilliam Pickersgill & Sons Ltd., Southwick, Sunderland
Laid down8 February 1944
Launched3 October 1944
Commissioned26 January 1946
DecommissionedAugust 1946
Identification Pennant number K423
FateScrapped, 1959
BadgeOn a Field barry wavy of eight White and Blue a branch of oak tree Green fructed Gold
General characteristics
Class and type Bay-class frigate
Displacement
  • 1,600 long tons (1,626 t) standard
  • 2,530 long tons (2,571 t) full
Length
  • 286 ft (87 m) p/p
  • 307 ft 3 in (93.65 m) o/a
Beam38 ft 6 in (11.73 m)
Draught12 ft 9 in (3.89 m)
Propulsion2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, 4-cylinder vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW)
Speed19.5 knots (36.1 km/h; 22.4 mph)
Range724 tons oil fuel, 9,500 nmi (17,600 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement157
Sensors and
processing systems
Armament

HMS Largo Bay was a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, named for Largo Bay in Fife.

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The ship was originally ordered from William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd. of Southwick, Sunderland on 25 January 1943 as the Loch-class frigate Loch Foin, and laid down on 8 February 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 3 October 1944, and commissioned on 26 January 1946. [1]

Service history

After sea trials, Largo Bay sailed for the Mediterranean, joining the Escort Flotilla at Malta on 23 February 1946. She was first deployed in the eastern Mediterranean for the interception of merchant ships carrying illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine. In March she returned to Malta for Flotilla duties. In August 1946 she returned to the UK to decommission and was placed into Plymouth Reserve Fleet. [1] In 1953 she took part in the Fleet Review to celebrate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. [2]

Largo Bay was placed on the Disposal List in 1958 and sold to the British Iron & Steel Corporation (BISCO) for demolition by Thos. W. Ward at Inverkeithing. She was towed to the breaker's yard, arriving on 11 July 1959. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Mason, Geoffrey B. (2003). Gordon Smith (ed.). "HMS Largo Bay, frigate". naval-history.net. Retrieved 9 October 2010.
  2. Souvenir Programme, Coronation Review of the Fleet, Spithead, 15th June 1953, HMSO, Gale and Polden

Publications

Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN   978-1-86176-281-8.