HMS Mounts Bay (K627)

Template:Short description Template:Other ships Template:More citations needed Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox ship HMS Mounts Bay was a Template:Sclass2 anti-aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, named after Mount's Bay in Cornwall. In commission from 1949 until 1960, she saw active service in the Korean War, and was sold to Portugal in 1961 to serve as NRP Vasco da Gama until 1971.

Decommissioning and disposal

In May 1960 the ship was decommissioned and put into Reserve at Portsmouth.<ref name="naval-history.net">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was modernized by John I Thornycroft in Southampton, before being commissioned by the Portuguese Navy on 3 August 1961.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Publications

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| last1 = Colledge
| first1 = J. J. 
| author-link1= J. J. Colledge
| last2 = Warlow
| first2 = Ben
| date = 2006
| orig-date = 1969
| title = Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present
| edition = Rev.
| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-86176-281-8
| OCLC = 67375475

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