Bar-class boom defence vessel


The Bar class were a class of boom defence vessels of the Royal Navy, Royal Australian Navy and South African Navy during World War II.

Ships

Royal Navy

  • HMS Barbain
  • HMS Barbarian
  • HMS Barbastel
  • HMS Barberry
  • HMS Barbette
  • HMS Barbette
  • HMS Barbican
  • HMS Barbour
  • HMS Barbourne
  • HMS Barbrake
  • HMS Barbridge
  • HMS Barbrook
  • HMS Barcarole
  • HMS Barcastle
  • HMS Barcliff
  • HMS Barclose
  • HMS Barcock
  • HMS Barcombe
  • HMS Barcote
  • HMS Barcroft
  • HMS Bardell
  • HMS Bardolf
  • HMS Barfair
  • HMS Barfield
  • HMS Barfoam
  • HMS Barfoil
  • HMS Barfoot
  • HMS Barford
  • HMS Barfoss
  • HMS Barfount
  • HMS Barglow
  • HMS Barhill
  • HMS Barholm
  • HMS Barilla
  • HMS Baritone
  • HMS Barking
  • HMS Barkis
  • HMS Barlake
  • HMS Barlane
  • HMS Barleycorn
  • HMS Barlight
  • HMS Barlow
  • HMS Barmill
  • HMS Barmond
  • HMS Barmouth
  • HMS Barnaby
  • HMS Barnard
  • HMS Barndale
  • HMS Barneath
  • HMS Barnehurst
  • HMS Baron
  • HMS Baronia
  • HMS Barrage
  • HMS Barranca
  • HMS Barrhead
  • HMS Barricade
  • HMS Barrier
  • HMS Barrington
  • HMS Barrymore
  • HMS Barsing
  • HMS Barsound
  • HMS Barspear
  • HMS Barstoke
  • HMS Barthorpe
  • HMS Bartizan
  • HMS Barwell
  • HMS Barwind
  • HMS Barcross (Z185), transferred to the South African Naval Forces in 1943.
  • HMS Barflake
  • HMS Barnstone
  • HMS ''Barova''

Royal Australian Navy

NameShip builderLaunchedFate
Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company, Sydney14 November 1939Sold in 1969
Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company, Sydney4 May 1940Sold in 1967
Cockatoo Docks and Engineering Company, Sydney16 August 1941Sold in 1966

South African Navy

NameShip builderCommissionedFate
SAS Somerset Blythe S.B. Co21 January 1943Decommissioned 31 March 1986. Museum ship, Cape Town from 2 September 1988 until scrapping in April 2024
SAS Fleur 15 February 1943Sunk by naval gunfire off Simonstown on 8 October 1965

Surviving ships

  • is the only survivor on the RAN fleet in Homebush Bay as an abandoned wreck.