Bayntun K 310

BAYNTUN (DE-1/K-310)

Named for Captain Henry William Bayntun (Trafalgar, 1805)
Type: GMT
Builder: BNY
Keel laid 04/05/42
Launched 06/27/42
Commissioned 01/20/43
First CO: Lt Cdr J. H. Wright, RNR
Decommissioned 08/22/45
Returned to and commissioned in USN same day
Stricken 11/01/45
Unit of B4, 10th EGs
Assisted in sinking four U-boats

From the research of Anne McCarthy,
with contributions by Pat Perrella and Pat Stephens, webmaster. March 2006