HMS Bayntun (K310)
HMS Bayntun (K310) at sea in 1943
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 United States
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| Name: | Bayntun |
| Namesake: | Henry William Bayntun |
| Awarded: | 1 November 1941 |
| Builder: | Boston Navy Yard |
| Laid down: | 5 April 1942 |
| Launched: | 27 June 1942 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Royal Navy, 20 January 1943 |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Bayntun |
| Commissioned: | 20 January 1943 |
| Decommissioned: | 14 June 1945 |
| Homeport: | Derry, Northern Ireland |
| Identification: | Pennant number: K310 |
| Status: | Returned to USN at Harwich, 22 August 1945 |
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United States
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| Name: | Bayntun |
| Commissioned: | 22 August 1945 |
| Decommissioned: | 19 October 1945 |
| Struck: | 1 November 1945 |
| Identification: | Hull classification symbol: DE-1 |
| Fate: | Unknown |
| Status: | Sold for scrapping, 17 June 1947 |
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| Beam: | 35 ft (11 m) |
| Draft: | 10 ft (3.0 m) |
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| Speed: | 19 knots (22 mph; 35 km/h) |
| Range: | 4,150 nmi (4,780 mi; 7,690 km) at 12 kn (14 mph; 22 km/h) |
| Complement: | 175 |
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| Part of: | 44th Escort Group, Western Approaches Command |
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USS Bayntun (DE-1) the first of the American built lend lease Captain-class frigates in the Royal Navy as HMS Bayntun (K310). She was named for Henry William Bayntun.
Bayntun was laid down on 5 April 1942, at the Boston Navy Yard; launched on 27 June 1942; transferred to the Royal Navy under lend lease on 20 January 1943. She was given the pennant number K310 and departed Boston the following month, bound via New York, for Bermuda to conduct her "working up."
Allocated to the 44th Escort Group, part of the Western Approaches Command, Bayntun and her sister ship Bazely sailed on 2 April 1943 for Chesapeake Bay where they were to load stores for transportation to the United Kingdom. However, Bayntun returned to Bermuda to pick up men from her crew who had been quarantined there due to scarlet fever before she sailed for England and ultimately got underway on 15 April for the British Isles, in company with Berry. The two Captain-class frigates reached Derry, Northern Ireland, on 23 April.
Assigned to Escort Group B 4, operating from Derry, Bayntun underwent voyage repairs at Liverpool in May before she sailed for Bermuda. Next shifting northward from Bermuda, Bayntun joined the screen for convoy HX 250 and sailed from New York on 30 July. The warship escorted two merchantmen, SS Biscaya and SS Bruarfoss, detached from the convoy, to Iceland before she herself proceeded on to Belfast. In his autobiography, Capt. John Treasure Jones describes a different series of events. He states that he took command of Bayntun at Derry on 19 June 1943, where he was attached to a Liverpool-based escort group. He was allocated as an additional escort to this group for the outward passage, with instructions to proceed to Boston on completion, to have new bearings fitted to the diesel engines, as they were badly worn. He states that the ship was powered by diesel electric motors and able to do 21 knots. (On 30 June he was promoted to Commander RNR.) She remained at Boston under repair in dry dock for four weeks and then returned to Britain as an additional escort with another convoy. On 29 August Capt Treasure Jones relinquished command of Bayntun and was given command of the frigate Dart. In September, an accident in Bayntun's forward motor room caused extensive damage and flooding, and the resultant repairs kept her in the yard at Belfast until 6 December.
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