HMS Loch Fyne (K429)
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| Career (UK) |  |
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| Name: | HMS Loch Fyne |
| Builder: | Burntisland Shipbuilding Company, Fife |
| Laid down: | 8 December 1943 |
| Launched: | 24 May 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 9 November 1944 |
| Struck: | August 1970 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap |
| 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) |
| Range: | 9,500 nautical miles (17,590 km) at 12 kt, 730 tons oil fuel |
| Complement: | 114 |
| 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 |
HMS Loch Fyne (K429), named after Loch Fyne in Scotland, was a Loch-class frigate of the British Royal Navy, built at Burntisland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. (Burntisland, Scotland) and launched in 1944 and finally scrapped in 1970.
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