Bay Class

Bay class can refer to any of the following classes of warship;

  • Bay class frigate, serving the Royal Navy from 1943 until the 1960s, the Finnish navy until 1973 and the Portuguese Navy during the late 1960s
  • Bay class frigate, four modified River class frigates serving in the Royal Australian Navy from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s
  • Katami Bay class icebreaking tug, serving the United States Coast Guard from 1979 to the present
  • Bay class landing ship, serving the Royal Navy as part of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary from 2006 to the present, and the Royal Australian Navy from 2011 to present
  • Bay class minehunter, serving the Royal Australian Navy from 1991 until 2001
  • Bay class minesweeper, serving the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Forces from the 1950s to the 1990s, and also serving in the French and Turkish navies
  • Bay class patrol boat, serving the Australian Customs Service from 1999 to the present
This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.

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