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HMS Burghead Bay
Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate of the Royal Navy and Portuguese Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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HMS Burghead Bay was a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, named for Burghead Bay in Morayshire.
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Name | HMS Burghead Bay |
Namesake | Burghead Bay |
Builder | Charles Hill & Sons, Bristol |
Yard number | 301 |
Laid down | 21 September 1944 |
Launched | 3 March 1945 |
Commissioned | 20 September 1945 |
Decommissioned | August 1958 |
Identification | Pennant number K622/F622 |
Fate | Sold to Portugal, May 1959 |
Badge | On a Field per fess wavy Gold and barry wavy of four white and blue, issuant in fess four golden hills conjoined green. |
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Name | NRP Álvares Cabral |
Namesake | Pedro Álvares Cabral |
Acquired | May 1959 |
Decommissioned | 23 June 1971 |
Identification | F336 |
Fate | Scrapped |
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Class and type | Bay-class frigate |
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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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The ship was originally ordered as a Loch-class frigate from Hall Russell of Aberdeen to be named Loch Harport. The order was cancelled in December 1943 and the ship was re-ordered as a Bay-class frigate from Charles Hill & Sons of Bristol in 1944. She was laid down on 21 September 1944 as Job No. J601 (Yard No. 301) and launched by Mrs A.V. Alexander, wife of the 1st Lord of the Admiralty on 3 March 1945.[1]