 The ship was originally ordered from Harland and Wolff, Belfast, on 6 March 1943 as the "Loch Arklet".However the contract was then changed, and the ship was laid down to a revised design as a Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate on 8 February 1944, launched on 15 February 1945, and not completed until 6 September 1945, after the end of hostilities.