HMS Loch Glendhu
Service
- as HMS Loch Glendhu23 February 1945 — November 1957191 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Loch Glendhu
- Pennant / hull number
- K619
- Namesake
- Loch Glendhu
- Builder
- Burntisland Shipbuilding Company
- Ordered
- 2 February 1943
- Laid down
- 29 May 1944
- Launched
- 18 October 1944
- Commissioned
- 23 February 1945
- Fate
- Scrapped November 1957 (1957)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,435 long tons (1,458 t)
- Length
- 93.57 m (307 ft)
- Beam
- 11.58 m (38 ft)
- Draught
- 2.44 m (8 ft)
- Speed
- 20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
- Range
- 9,500 nmi (17,594 km)
- Complement
- 114
- Main gun
- 20 mm (0.8 in)
HMS Loch Glendhu was a Loch-class frigate frigate, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number K619. The ship was named after Loch Glendhu. Her keel was laid at Burntisland Shipbuilding Company on 29 May 1944. Launched on 18 October 1944, she entered service on 23 February 1945.
Her class ran to 15 ships. The class followed the River-class frigate and was succeeded by the Bay-class frigate.
She displaced 1,435 long tons. She measured 93.6 m (307 ft) long with a beam of 11.6 m (38 ft). Her designed speed was 20 knots, and she carried a complement of 114.
Her main battery was eight 20 mm (0.8 in) guns. Her machinery developed 5,500 ihp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 191 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in November 1957.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts
- 2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines or
- 2 × Parsons steam turbines
- Power
- 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 5500 ihp (steam engines) or
- 6500 shp (steam turbines)
- Armament
- 1 × single QF 4-inch Mark V
- 1 × quadruple QF 2-pounder
- 2 × single Bofors AA guns
- 2–8 × single 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns
- 2 × Squid triple-barrelled anti-submarine mortars
- 1 rail and 2 throwers for 15 depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Loch Glendhu on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 14734 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons