Finnish frigate Matti Kurki
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| Career |  |
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| Laid down: | November 22, 1944 |
| Launched: | June 14, 1945 |
| Commissioned: | March 8, 1946 1964 (Finnish Navy) |
| Fate: | Scrapped in 1975 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Bay-class frigate |
| Displacement: |
1,580 tons (standard) |
| Length: | 93.7 metres (307 ft) |
| Beam: | 11.7 metres (38 ft) |
| Draft: | 4.6 metres (15 ft) |
| Propulsion: | two Admiralty triple expansion boilers, 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 19.5 knots (36.1 km/h) |
| Range: | 9,500 nautical miles (17,600 km) at 12 knots |
| Complement: | 160 |
| Armament: | four 102 mm six 40 mm AA one Squid mortar four DC mortars |
Matti Kurki (ex-HMS Porlock Bay, ex-HMS Loch Muick, ex-HMS Loch Seaforth) was a British-built Finnish Bay-class frigate. She was constructed at Charles Hill & Sons, Ltd. in Bristol, UK. The HMS Porlock Bay was transferred to Finland on March 19, 1962, and was renamed Matti Kurki in Finnish Navy service, for the Finnish medieval military hero Matti Kurki (Mats Kurck). She was used as a school ship.
Matti Kurki made seven global circumnavigations. It is estimated some 1,500 Finnish cadets and conscripts served onboard her during her service in the Finnish navy. She was permanently anchored at Upinniemi after 1974, decommissioned, paid off and scrapped in Helsinki in 1975, Finland. She served as a training ship until 1975. After her scrapping, her school ship role was temporarily taken over by Hämeenmaa and Keihässalmi, until the commissioning of Pohjanmaa in 1979.
