Royal Navy — Frigate class
Loch-class frigate
Loch class
The class in numbers
- 28 Completed
- 54 Cancelled
Design and service
- Type
- Frigate
- Navies
- Royal Navy 14
Royal Canadian Navy 1 - Preceded by
- River-class frigate
- Succeeded by
- Bay-class frigate
- Operators
- South African Navy, Royal Canadian Navy
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- Displacement, standard
- 1,435 long tons (1,458 t)
- Length
- 93.57 m (307 ft)
- Speed
- 20 knots (37 km/h, 23 mph)
- Complement
- 114
- Main gun
- 20 mm (0.8 in)
- Armament
- 1 × single QF 4-inch Mark V
- 1 × quadruple QF 2-pounder
- 2 × twin Oerlikon 20 mm AA guns or 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
Roster
Holding 15 of the 28 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMS Loch Achanalt | 1944 | Scrapped 1965 | |
| HMS Loch Achray | K426 | 1945 | Scrapped 1966 |
| HMS Loch Alvie | 1950 | Scrapped 1965 | |
| HMS Loch Arkaig | K603 | 1945 | Scrapped 1959 |
| HMS Loch Dunvegan | K425 | 1944 | Scrapped 1960 |
| HMS Loch Eck (K422) | K422 | 1944 | 1965 |
| HMS Loch Fada | K390 | 1944 | Scrapped 1970 |
| HMS Loch Fyne | K429 | 1944 | Scrapped 1970 |
| HMS Loch Glendhu | K619 | 1945 | Scrapped 1957 |
| HMS Loch Insh | K433 | 1944 | Scrapped 1977 |
| HMS Loch Katrine | K625 | 1944 | Scrapped 1966 |
| HMS Loch Killin | K391 | 1944 | Scrapped 1960 |
| HMS Loch Killisport | 1945 | Scrapped 1970 | |
| HMS Loch Lomond | K437 | 1944 | Scrapped 1968 |
| HMS Loch More | K639 | 1945 | Scrapped 1963 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Loch-class frigate on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.