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HMS Mounts Bay (K627) as NRP Vasco da Gama (F478)
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | HMS Mounts Bay |
Namesake | Mount's Bay |
Builder | William Pickersgill & Sons Ltd., South Bank, Middlesbrough |
Laid down | 23 October 1944 |
Launched | 8 June 1945 |
Commissioned | 11 April 1949 |
Decommissioned | May 1960 |
Identification | pennant number K627 |
Honours and awards | Korea 1950–53 |
Fate | Sold to Portugal, 1961 |
Portugal | |
Name | NRP Vasco da Gama |
Namesake | Vasco da Gama |
Acquired | 1961 |
Identification | F478 |
Fate | Scrapped 1971 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Bay-class frigate |
Displacement |
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Length | |
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 |
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Armament |
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HMS Mounts Bay was a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, named after Mount's Bay in Cornwall. In commission from 1949 until 1960, she saw active service in the Korean War, and was sold to Portugal in 1961 to serve as NRP Vasco da Gama until 1971.
Decommissioning and disposal
In May 1960 the ship was decommissioned and put into Reserve at Portsmouth.[1] She was modernized by John I Thornycroft in Southampton, before being commissioned by the Portuguese Navy on 3 August 1961.[2]
References
- ^ Blackman, Raymond V B (ed.). Jane's Fighting Ships 1963-4. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd. p. 207.
Publications
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) . Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
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