Dates: 1944 - 1970

LOCH-Class Anti-Submarine Frigate ordered on 19th January 1943 from W Pickersgill of Sunderland and to be named LOCH.HEILEN. Orders were placed with several other shipyards for LOCH Class ships at the same time. However in late 1943 this order was changed for construction of a new design of Anti-Aircraft Frigate (BAY Class - See General Information). The ship was laid down on 30th April 1944 as Admiralty Job No J4802 (Yard No 266) and was launched as HMS MORECAMBE BAY on 1st Nov. 1944.Tne ceremony was carried out by Miss Mary Berry, whose father was the managing director of a Teeside engineering firm and a former Royal Navy Officer. No previous RN ship had borne this name. Work was suspended after the end of hostilities in the Far East and a new contract to complete her build was placed with J S White at Cowes. She was commissioned on 22nd February 1949.

Badge: On a Field White, White 4 pallets wavy blue. a red rose barbed and seeded proper.

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