HMS Loch Katrine
Service
- as HMS Loch KatrineDecember 1944 — May 1946275 days of the war
- as HMNZS Rotoiti7 May 1949 — August 1965
- Name
- HMS Loch Katrine
- Pennant / hull number
- K625
- Namesake
- Loch Katrine
- Builder
- Henry Robb, Leith
- Ordered
- 25 January 1943
- Laid down
- 31 December 1943
- Launched
- 21 August 1944
- Commissioned
- December 1944
- Decommissioned
- May 1946
- Recommissioned
- February 1957
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping, 1966 (1966)
- 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 Katrine was a Loch-class frigate of the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number K625. She was named for Loch Katrine. Henry Robb, Leith laid her keel on 31 December 1943. Launched on 21 August 1944, she entered service in December 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 served with the Royal Navy as HMS Loch Katrine until May 1946. She then passed to the Royal New Zealand Navy, serving as HMNZS Rotoiti from 7 May 1949. She was in commission for 275 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in May 1946. She recommissioned in February 1957.
She was broken up for scrap in 1966.
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 barrelled A/S mortars
- 1 rail and 2 throwers for depth charges
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Loch Katrine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 14771 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons