 However the contract was then changed, and the ship was completed to a revised design as a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate, launched on 31 October 1944, and completed on 4 January 1946.After sea trials in December 1945 and January 1946, "Enard Bay" sailed for the Mediterranean joining the Escort Flotilla at Malta on 7 February.She was first deployed in the eastern Mediterranean for the interception of merchant ships carrying illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine.