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| HMS Porlock Bay |
 
Dates: 1946 - 1949 HMS Porlock Bay (K650) was a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate of the Royal Navy. She was originally laid down as the Loch-class vessel Loch Muick, renamed to Loch Seaforth on the stocks and then completed as Porlock Bay. She was built by Charles Hill & Sons of Bristol and commissioned on March 8, 1946. Crew: 157. She served with the America and West Indies Squadron from August 1946 to November 1947. Subsequently, she was based at Devonport for service with the Fishery Protection Squadron. HMS Porlock Bay was reduced to Reserve status at Devonport in January 1949 and remained there in Reserve until 1962. On March 19, 1962 she was sold to the Finnish Navy as the Matti Kurki - for the Finnish medieval military hero. She was finally decommissioned 1974, paid off and scrapped in Helsinki in 1975.
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HMS Porlock Bay
1946 - 1949
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