HMS St Austell Bay
Ship Number
1249
Vessel Type
Bay' Class Frigate
Built
Belfast
Slip Number
1
Launch Date
November 18, 1944
Launched By
Mrs F S Farrow
Delivered
May 29, 1945
Owner
Admiralty
Weight
1600 grt
BP Length
286 feet
Breadth
38-6 feet
No. of Screws
Twin
Speed (approx)
19.5 knots
Propulsion
2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, 4-cylinder vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW)
Official No.
Registered
Fate
Scrapped
HMS St Austell Bay

Pennant No. K634 (Later F634)
 
The ship was originally ordered on 2 February 1943 as the Loch-class frigate HMS Loch Lydoch. However the contract was then changed, and the ship was built to a revised design as a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate, launched on 18 November 1944, and completed on 29 May 1945
 
St Austell Bay was recommissioned in May 1955, but significant problems with the refit delayed deployment until November when she returned to Bermuda for the usual programme of joint exercises, training and port visits in the Caribbean and to North America. She returned to Plymouth in August 1956 to decommission and was put into Reserve. St Austell Bay remained in the Reserve Fleet at Plymouth until 1959 when she was placed on the Disposal List. She was sold to BISCO for demolition by Shipbreaking Industries and arrived in tow at the breakers yard at Charlestown near Rosyth on 5 July 1959.