HMS Loch More
Service
- as HMS Loch More24 February 1945 — August 1963190 days of the war
- Name
- HMS Loch More
- Pennant / hull number
- K639
- Namesake
- Loch More
- Builder
- Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company
- Laid down
- 16 March 1944
- Launched
- 3 October 1944
- Commissioned
- 24 February 1945
- Fate
- Scrapped Thos. W. Ward, August 1963 (1963)
- 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 More was a Loch-class frigate built for the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number K639. She was named for Loch More. Her keel was laid at Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company on 16 March 1944. She entered service on 24 February 1945, having been launched on 3 October 1944.
15 ships of the class were built. 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 190 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in August 1963.
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 More on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — This photograph FL 14802 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 8308-29) — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons