HMS Tremadoc Bay
Ship Number
1253
Vessel Type
Bay' Class Frigate
Built
Belfast
Slip Number
1
Launch Date
March 29, 1945
Launched By
Mrs Oscar Henderson
Delivered
October 11, 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 Tremadoc Bay

Pennant No. K605 (Later F605)
 
BAY Class Anti-Aircraft Frigate initially ordered from Harland and Wolff at Belfast on 2nd May 1943 for build as a LOCH Class Anti-submarine Frigate, but for which the order was changed in 1944. Originally to have been named HMS Loch Arnish she was laid down on 31st August 1944 and launched as HMS Tremadoc Bay at Belfast on 29th March 1945. First RN ship to carry this name she was completed on 11th October 1945 after the end of hostilities with Japan.
 
April - December 1951 She was paid off and de-stored. Accepted into Reserve Fleet at Devonport.
                          
HMS Tremadoc Bay remained at Devonport until 1953 when she was refitted by Silley Cox at Falmouth. On completion she was nominated for transfer to the Reserve Fleet Sub-Division at Gibraltar and towed there to lay-up in Reserve. In 1958 she was placed on the Disposal List as part of the reduction in the number of ships in Reserve  required by the Defence Review. Sold to an Italian shipbreaker in 1959 she arrived at Genoa in tow on 18 September that year for demolition.