HMS Loch Killisport
Service
- as HMS Loch KillisportJuly 1945 — August 196563 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Loch Killisport
- Namesake
- Loch Killisport
- Builder
- Harland and Wolff, Belfast
- Ordered
- 2 February 1943
- Laid down
- 28 December 1943
- Launched
- 6 July 1944
- Commissioned
- July 1945
- Decommissioned
- April 1946
- Recommissioned
- November 1950
- Fate
- Sold for scrapping, 20 February 1970 (1970)
- 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 Killisport was a Loch-class frigate, operated by the Royal Navy. She was named for Loch Killisport. Harland and Wolff, Belfast laid her keel on 28 December 1943. Launched on 6 July 1944, she entered service in July 1945.
She was one of 15 ships of her class. 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 63 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in April 1946. She recommissioned in November 1950.
She was broken up for scrap on 20 February 1970.
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 Killisport on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Stewart Bale Ltd, Liverpool — This photograph FL 14780 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons