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Name / Owner: HMS TENACIOUS (Royal Navy).
Date photographed: late 1959.
Year built / Builder: 1944, Cammell Laird, Birkenhead (converted 1952).
Details: 1,710 tons displacement; 363 ft (oa) x 36 ft; twin screws driven by geared turbines producing 40,000 shp for 36.75 knots. Armament as in photo: 2-4 in guns, 7-40 mm A.A., 4-21 in torpedo tubes.
History: TENACIOUS was built as an "S" and "T" class destroyer (original pennant number R45) and served in the Mediterranean, later in the East Indies, finishing the war with the Pacific Fleet. She was converted to a fast anti-submarine frigate in 1952 and was soon to be laid-up along with many other warships of that era. Barrow "hosted" quite a few and for years rafts of ships were tied up in Devonshire and Buccleuch Docks opposite Vickers' fitting-out berths. In this photo the Bay class frigate, HMS MORECAMBE BAY (F624 - later sold to Portugal), is moored inboard. The blast furnaces of BISCO can be seen in the right background and the flour mills of Walmesley Smith left centre.
Other destroyers and frigates laid-up earlier or at the time of this photo included BROADSWORD (D31), CAMBRIAN (F85), the Hunt Type III, ALBRIGHTON (F112) and the Type II, OAKLEY (both later transferred to the West German Navy), GARTH (F120), LOCH GORM (F620), BALLINDERRY (F155), SOUTHDOWN (F25) and BLENCATHRA. Several of these were broken up by Thos. Ward at Barrow.
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