HMS Tremadoc Bay (K605)

History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Tremadoc Bay
Namesake	Tremadoc Bay, Gwynedd
Builder	Harland & Wolff
Yard number	1253
Laid down	31 August 1944
Launched	29 March 1945
Completed	11 October 1945
Commissioned	11 October 1945
Decommissioned	April 1951
Identification	Pennant number K605
Fate	Sold for scrapping, 1959
Badge	On a Field Blue barry wavy of 4 in base Blue and white, three escallops conjoined in fess, Gold.
General characteristics
Class and type	Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate
Displacement	1,600 tons standard, 2,530 tons 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)
Range	724 tons oil fuel, 9,500 nmi (17,600 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement	157
Armament	4 × 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 Tremadoc Bay was a

Tremadoc Bay in north Wales

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The ship was ordered from

Harland and Wolff at Belfast on 2 May 1943 as a Loch-class frigate to be named Loch Arnish. The contract was changed in 1944, and the Bay-class ship was laid down on 31 August 1944, launched on 29 March 1945, and completed on 11 October 1945 after the end of hostilities.^[2]

Service history

After

Lisahally, Northern Ireland, with U-3035 in tow, in company with the frigate Narborough towing U-3041. Unfortunately bad weather in the North Sea, and problems with the towing gear forced them to divert to Rosyth. She eventually sailed again on 7 December, arriving at Libau, Latvia, on the 14th, before sailing to Plymouth.^[2]

In February 1946 she towed the

Type XXIII submarine U-2326, in company with the tug Bustler towing the Type XXI submarine U-2518, from Lisahally to Cherbourg for hand-over to the French Navy in "Operation Thankful". Once again towing problems in heavy weather forced her to take shelter, this time in Dublin Bay.^[2]

In March Tremadoc Bay was deployed for training and emergency duties with Plymouth Local Flotilla. In September 1947 she was deployed with

Palestine, back to Europe.^[2]

Tremadoc Bay then resumed Local Flotilla duties at Plymouth, remaining there until April 1951, when she was decommissioned and put into Reserve at Devonport. She remained at Devonport until 1953 when she was refitted at Falmouth, then towed to Gibraltar still in Reserve. In 1958 she was placed on the Disposal List, in 1959, prior to being sold to an Italian shipbreaker, Tremadoc Bay made an appearance in the Film Silent Enemy, the film of Lt. Lionel Buster Crabb RNVR about the work defusing mines in Gibraltar during WW2, some time after this, she was taken under tow, and arrived at Genoa on 18 September for scrapping.^[2]

References

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ISBN 9780752488615
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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Mason, Geoffrey B. (2001). Gordon Smith (ed.). "HMS Tremadoc Bay, frigate". naval-history.net. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
^ Helgason, Guðmundur. "Operation Cabal – Delivery of 10 U-Boats from the UK to the USSR in 1945/46". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 7 October 2010.

Publications

ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8
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Lenton, H.T., British and Empire Warships of the Second World War, Greenhill Books,
ISBN 1-85367-277-7

Marriott, Leo, Royal Navy Frigates 1945–1983, Ian Allan, 1983,
ISBN 0-7110-1322-5

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ISBN 9780752488615
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[naval-history.net-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Mason, Geoffrey B. (2001). Gordon Smith (ed.). "HMS Tremadoc Bay, frigate". naval-history.net. Retrieved 7 October 2010.

[3] Helgason, Guðmundur. "Operation Cabal – Delivery of 10 U-Boats from the UK to the USSR in 1945/46". German U-boats of WWII - uboat.net. Retrieved 7 October 2010.

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