HMS Porlock Bay (K650)
| History | |
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| United Kingdom | |
| 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 | |
| Name | Matti Kurki |
| Namesake | Matti Kurki |
| Acquired | 19 March 1962 |
| Commissioned | 1964 |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping, September 1975 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Bay-class frigate |
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| Length | |
| 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.