HMS Loch Dunvegan
Service
- as Loch DunveganJune 1944 — November 1953458 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Loch Dunvegan
- Pennant / hull number
- K425
- Namesake
- Loch Dunvegan
- Builder
- Charles Hill & Sons, Bristol
- Ordered
- 19 January 1943
- Laid down
- 29 September 1943
- Launched
- 25 March 1944
- Commissioned
- June 1944
- Decommissioned
- April 1947
- Recommissioned
- 1 May 1950
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping, 1960 (1960)
- 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 Dunvegan was a Loch-class frigate frigate built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number K425. She was named for Loch Dunvegan. Her keel was laid at Charles Hill & Sons, Bristol on 29 September 1943. She entered service in June 1944, having been launched on 25 March 1944.
Her class ran to 15 ships. The class followed the River-class frigate and was succeeded by the Bay-class frigate.
Displacement was 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 in commission for 458 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in April 1947. She recommissioned on 1 May 1950.
She was broken up for scrap in 1960.
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
- 4-cylinder vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines, 5500 hp
- Armament
- 1 × QF 4 inch Mark V on 1 single mounting HA Mk.III**
- 4 × QF 2-pounder Mk.VII on 1 quad mount Mk.VII
- 4 × 20 mm Oerlikon 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 barreled A/S mortars
- 1 rail and 2 throwers for depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Loch Dunvegan on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 14716 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons