HMS Loch Arkaig
Service
- as HMS Loch Arkaig1 November 1945 — 1952
- Name
- HMS Loch Arkaig
- Pennant / hull number
- K603
- Namesake
- Loch Arkaig
- Builder
- Caledon Shipbuilding, Dundee
- Ordered
- 2 February 1943
- Laid down
- 1 November 1943
- Launched
- 7 June 1944
- Commissioned
- 1 November 1945
- Decommissioned
- 1952
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping, 1959 (1959)
- 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
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Loch Arkaig was a Loch-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number K603. The ship was named after Loch Arkaig. Her keel was laid at Caledon Shipbuilding, Dundee on 1 November 1943. She entered service on 1 November 1945, having been launched on 7 June 1944.
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 of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She was decommissioned in 1952.
She was broken up for scrap in 1959.
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 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 2 shafts
- Parsons single reduction geared turbines, 6500 shp
- Armament
- 1 × QF 4 inch Mark V gun on mounting HA Mk.III**
- 4 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) Mk.VII guns on quad mount Mk.VII
- 4 × Oerlikon 20 mm cannon A/A on 2 twin mounts Mk.V (or 2 × 40 mm Bofors A/A on 2 single mounts Mk.III)
- Up to 8 × 20 mm Oerlikon A/A on single mounts Mk.III
- 2 × Squid triple barrelled A/S mortars
- 1 rail and 2 throwers for depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Loch Arkaig on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 1928 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons