HMS Loch Killin
Service
- as HMS Loch KillinApril 1944 — September 1945519 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Loch Killin
- Pennant / hull number
- K391
- Namesake
- Loch Killin
- Builder
- Burntisland Shipbuilding Company
- Ordered
- 6 March 1943
- Laid down
- 2 June 1943
- Launched
- 29 November 1943
- Commissioned
- April 1944
- Decommissioned
- September 1945
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping, 1960 (1960)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,435 long tons (1,458 t)
- Length
- 93.57 m (307 ft) OA
- 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 Killin was a Loch-class frigate, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number K391. The ship was named after Loch Killin. Her keel was laid at Burntisland Shipbuilding Company on 2 June 1943. She entered service in April 1944, having been launched on 29 November 1943.
15 ships of the class were built. 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 in commission for 519 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in September 1945.
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 ihp
- Armament
- 1 × QF 4 inch Mark V gun on 1 single mounting HA Mk.III**
- 4 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) guns 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 Killin on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 14777 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons