HMS Loch Lomond
Service
- as HMS Loch LomondNovember 1944 — 19 December 1964305 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Loch Lomond
- Pennant / hull number
- K437
- Namesake
- Loch Lomond
- Builder
- Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Dundee, Scotland
- Ordered
- 2 February 1943
- Laid down
- 7 December 1943
- Launched
- 19 June 1944
- Commissioned
- November 1944
- Decommissioned
- April 1946
- Recommissioned
- 22 September 1950
- Struck
- February 1965
- Fate
- Sold for scrap, 1968 (1968)
- 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 Lomond was a Loch-class frigate built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number K437. She was named for Loch Lomond. Her keel was laid at Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Dundee, Scotland on 7 December 1943. She entered service in November 1944, having been launched on 19 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 in commission for 305 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in April 1946. She recommissioned on 22 September 1950. She was struck from the register in February 1965.
She was broken up for scrap in 1968.
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 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 Lomond on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 14792 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons