11-675: (Redirected from Bay-class ) Bay class can refer to any of the following classes of ships: Bay-class frigate , serving the Royal Navy from 1943 until the 1960s, the Finnish Navy until 1973 and the Portuguese Navy during the late 1960s Bay-class tugboat , serving the United States Coast Guard from 1979 to the present Bay-class landing ship , serving
22-557: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bay-class frigate The Bay class was a class of 26 anti-aircraft (A/A) frigates built for the Royal Navy under the 1943 War Emergency Programme during World War II (one of which was cancelled and six completed as despatch vessels or survey ships). They were based on the hulls of incomplete Loch class anti-submarine (A/S) frigates . In 1959 and 1961, four frigates of
33-721: The Mediterranean and Far East Fleets . These ships omitted the Mark V Bofors mounts and the aft 4-inch (10 cm) guns and had the superstructure extended to provide additional flag accommodation and stepped a tall mainmast. The four other ships were completed as survey vessels , specifically to deal with the vast numbers of uncharted wrecks and mines around the British Isles from wartime. They were unarmed, except for four 3-pounder saluting guns. They had shorter forward shelter decks and carried survey boats under davits abreast
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55-575: The Australian Customs Service from 1999 to the present Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bay class . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bay_class&oldid=1043432366 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
66-665: The Radar Type ;285 fire control set, Radar Type 291 air warning was carried at the head of the topmast in addition to Radar Type 276 (later 293) target indication at the masthead. The associated IFF transponders were also carried on the foremast to distinguish between friendly and enemy targets and a high frequency direction finder (HF/DF) was carried on a short pole mainmast aft. Six Bays were completed to different designs. Dundrum Bay and Gerrans Bay were renamed Alert and Surprise and completed as "despatch vessels", commander-in-chief 's (C-in-C) yachts for
77-675: The Royal Navy as part of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary from 2006 to the present, and the Royal Australian Navy from 2011 to present Bay-class minehunter , serving the Royal Australian Navy from 1991 until 2001 Bay-class minesweeper , serving the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Forces from the 1950s to the 1990s, and also serving in the French and Turkish navies Bay-class patrol boat , serving
88-700: The class ( Bigbury Bay , Burghead Bay , Morecambe Bay and Mounts Bay ) were transferred to the Portuguese Navy . Between 1966 and 1968, based in Mozambique , these ships were part of the Portuguese naval deterrent force against the Royal Navy Beira Patrol which was trying to enforce sanctions against Rhodesia. In 1966 the Portuguese Navy also bought the survey vessel Dalrymple which served until 1983. The Bay class made use of
99-1028: The funnel and minesweeping gear aft. Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L Look for Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use
110-940: The hull, machinery, lattice mast and superstructure of incomplete Loch-class frigates. The armament was altered to suit them to the A/A role, with twin QF 4 in Mark XVI guns fore and aft in mounts HA/LA Mark XIX fitted with remote power control ( RPC ), controlled by a rangefinder-director Mark V carried on the bridge and fitted with Type 285 radar for range taking. Due to a shortage of supply of 4-inch (10 cm) guns and mountings, many ships had these removed from laid up V and W-class destroyer "WAIR" conversions and Hunt-class destroyers that were constructive total losses. A pair of Mark V "utility" mounts for twin 40 mm Bofors guns were sited amidships, each with its own predictive Simple Tachymetric Director (STD) for fire control. The A/A armament
121-478: Was completed by a pair of mounts Mark V for twin 20 mm Oerlikon guns, carried in the bridge wings. Later, the Oerlikons were replaced with single mounts Mark VII for Bofors guns, a further pair of which were added amidships on raised platforms. For A/S use, a Hedgehog projector was carried on the fo'c'sle and the quarterdeck carried two racks and four throwers for up to 50 depth charges . In addition to
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