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 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;
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
Sensors and ; processing systems	Type 285 fire control radar; Type 291 air warning radar; Type 276 target indication radar; High Frequency Direction Finder (HF/DF); IFF transponder;
Armament	4 × QF 4 inch Mark XVI guns on 2 twin mounting HA/LA Mk.XIX; 4 × 40 mm Bofors A/A on 2 twin mounts Mk.V; 4 × 20 mm Oerlikon A/A on 2 twin mounts Mk.V; 1 × Hedgehog 24 barrel A/S projector; 2 rails and 4 throwers for 50 depth charges;

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.

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