HMS Loch Killin (K391)
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| Name: | HMS Loch Killin |
| Builder: | Burntisland Shipbuilding Company, Fife |
| Launched: | 29 November 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 12 April 1944 |
| Fate: | Scrapped 24 August 1960 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Loch class frigate |
| Displacement: | 1,435 tons |
| Length: | 286 feet (87 m) p/p 307 feet 3 inches (93.6 m) o/a |
| Beam: | 38 feet 6 inches (11.7 m) |
| Draught: | 8 feet 9 inches (2.7 m) standard 13 feet 3 inches (4.0 m) full |
| Propulsion: | 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2 shafts 4-cylinder vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines, 5,500 ihp, or Parsons single reduction geared turbines, 6,500 shp |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h) (Alert and Surprise; 20.5 kt) |
| Range: | 9,500 nautical miles (17,590 km) at 12 kt, 730 tons oil fuel |
| Complement: | 114 (Depot ships; 120) |
| 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 |
HMS Loch Killin (K391) is a Loch class frigate of the Royal Navy and is named after Loch Killin in Scotland. She was laid down at Burntisland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. and launched on 29 November 1943. Notably she was armed with a brand new Squid anti-submarine depth charge mortar. She was finally scrapped on 24 August 1960. She was captained during the war by Lieutenant-Commander S. Darling, DSC and Bar, RANVR.
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- On 31 July 1944 together with HMS Starling (U66), sank the German submarine U-333 in the North Atlantic west of the Isles of Scilly, in position , with the Squid depth charge system. This was the first successful use of the Squid system.
- On 6 August 1944 she sank the German submarine U-736 in the Bay of Biscay west of St. Nazaire, in position , with depth charges.
- On 15 April 1945 she sank the German submarine U-1063 in the English Channel west of Land's End, in position , with depth charges.
