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H
. M
. S . C A W S A N D B A Y
( K 6 9 4 )
BAY Class Anti-Aircraft Frigate initially ordered on
25th January 1943
for build as a LOCH Class Anti-
Submarine Frigate, but for which the ordered was
changed in 1944. Originally to have been named LOCH
ROWAN she was laid down on 24th April 1944
and launched as CAWSAND
BAY
by Blyth Dock at Blyth
on 26th February 1945. First RN ship to carry this
name she was completed on 13th November 1945.
G e o g r a p h i c
L o c a t i o n
Grid
Reference: SX4350. Bay on Cornwall on western side of Plymouth Sound.
B
a t t l e H o
n o u r s
None
H
e r a l d i c D a t a
Badge: On a Field per fess Gold and Blue an anchor ccounter
charged within a circle
composed of in chief four roses Red barbed and seeded proper and in base
four bezants Gold.
Explanation: The anchor refers to the admirable nature
of Cawsand Bay as an anchorage.
The red roses commemorate the fact that the
Duke of Richmond, afterwards
King
Henry VII landed at Cawsand Bay and the bezants
represent the county
of
Cornwall.
M a n n i n g
P o r t
Portsmouth
S
u m m a r y o
f S e r v i c
e
1 9 4 5
November
Contractors trials
Commissioned for service in Rosyth Local
Flotilla.
13th Build completion and commenced Acceptance Trials.
December On
completion of trials and storing took passage to Clyde to carry out weapon
calibrations.
1 9 4 6
January
Deployed in Clyde area
Nominated for reduction to Reserve status.
February
Passage to Rosyth.
11th Joined Flotilla for Local duties.
Sustained damage in collision.
March
Passage to Portsmouth to Pay-off and reduce to
Reserve.
6th Arrived at Portsmouth
11th Paid-off and commenced de-storing.
April On completion of reduction accepted into Reserve
Fleet at Portsmouth.
F
i n a l P h a
s e
HMS CAWSAND BAY remained laid-up in Reserve at
Portsmouth until 1958 when placed on the Disposal List. Sold for demolition to an Italian shipbreaker
the ship was towed to Genoa where she arrived on 5th September 1959.
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