HMS Bayntun (K310) (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! USS Bayntun (DE-1) the first of the lend lease destroyer escorts in the United States Navy. She served in the Royal Navy as HMS Bayntun (K310). She was named for Henry William Bayntun. Bayntun was laid down on 5 April 1942 at the Boston Navy Yard; launched on 27 June 1942; transferred to the Royal Navy under lend lease on 20 January 1943. She was given the pendant number K310 and departed Boston the following month, bound via New York, for Bermuda to conduct her "working up." Allocated to the 44th Escort Group, part of the Western Approaches Command, Bayntun and her sistership HMS Bazely sailed on 2 April 1943 for Chesapeake Bay where they were to load stores for transportation to the United Kingdom.