Finnish frigate Matti Kurki
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| Name: | HMS Porlock Bay |
| Builder: | Charles Hill & Sons, Bristol |
| Yard number: | 302 |
| Laid down: | 22 November 1944 |
| Launched: | 14 June 1945 |
| Completed: | 8 February 1946 |
| Commissioned: | 14 February 1946 |
| Decommissioned: | January 1949 |
| Identification: | pennant number K650/F650 |
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| Fate: | Sold to Finland, 19 March 1962 |
| Badge: | On a Field quarterly Gold and Red in base berry wavy of four white and blue, an oak tree fructed proper. |
 Finland
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| Name: | Matti Kurki |
| Namesake: | Matti Kurki |
| Acquired: | 19 March 1962 |
| Commissioned: | 1964 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrapping, September 1975 |
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| Class and type: | Bay-class frigate |
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| 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 |
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HMS Porlock Bay was a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, named for Porlock Bay on the northern coast of Somerset. Commissioned in 1946, she served on the American and West Indies Station and as a Fisheries Protection Vessel before being put into reserve in 1949. She was sold to Finland in 1962 and served as the training ship Matti Kurki until 1974.
The ship was ordered in 1944 from Charles Hill & Sons at Bristol in place of a Loch-class frigate Loch Seaforth which had been cancelled on 27 November 1943. The ship was laid down on 22 November 1944 as Admiralty Job No. 602 (Yard No. 302). She was launched on 14 June 1945 and completed on 8 February 1946. Porlock Bay was the last warship to be built by this shipyard.
After sea trials Porlock Bay was commissioned on 14 February 1946 for service in the America and West Indies Station under the command of Lieutenant Dudley L. Davenport. After training she was attached to the Plymouth Local Flotilla and finally sailed for Bermuda with sister ship Padstow Bay on 22 July. On arrival a minor collision meant that she did not participate with the Squadron in the Autumn Programme of visits to U.S. ports.
Once repaired she took part in visits to Newfoundland and Canada, arriving at St John's on 7 September for the National Convention on the political future of the Colony, and took the Governor, Sir Gordon Macdonald on an official tour of isolated settlements on south coast. After visits on the northern coast, she then visited mainland ports, arriving at Quebec on 15 October. In early November she took part in joint exercises with ships of the Royal Canadian Navy at Halifax before returning to Bermuda to refit at the Royal Dockyard.
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