History
United Kingdom
Name	HMSEnard 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 afess wavy of six White and Blue charged with threeroundels Black.
General characteristics
Class & type	Bay-classfrigate
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 verticaltriple expansionreciprocating engines, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW)
Speed	19.5knots (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 & 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 mountingHA/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 50depth charges

HMSEnard Bay was aBay-classanti-aircraftfrigate of theBritishRoyal Navy, named forEnard Bay inCaithness.

The ship was originally ordered from theSmiths Dock Company ofSouth Bank, Middlesbrough on 25 January 1943 as theLoch-classfrigateLoch 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.^[1]

Aftersea trials in December 1945 and January 1946,Enard Bay sailed for the Mediterranean joining the Escort Flotilla atMalta on 7 February. She was first deployed in the eastern Mediterranean for the interception of merchant ships carryingillegal Jewish immigrants toPalestine. In June she returned to Malta, and in August wasguard ship atTrieste, returning to the eastern Mediterranean in September for further interception patrols offHaifa. In January 1947 she returned to the UK to decommission and was placed into Plymouth Reserve Fleet, where she was used as anaccommodation ship.^[1] In 1953 she took part in theFleet Review to celebrate the Coronation ofQueen Elizabeth II.^[2]

Enard Bay was placed on the Disposal List in 1956, and sold to theBritish Iron & Steel Corporation (BISCO) for demolition by Shipbreaking Industries atFaslane, where she arrived in tow on 15 November 1957.^[1]

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969].Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing.ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.OCLC 67375475.

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