HMS Loch Lomond (K437)
Loch Lomond in October 1944
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Name | HMS Loch Lomond |
Namesake | Loch Lomond |
Ordered | 2 February 1943 |
Builder | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Dundee, Scotland |
Laid down | 7 December 1943 |
Launched | 19 June 1944 |
Completed | 16 November 1944 |
Commissioned | November 1944 |
Decommissioned | April 1946 |
Recommissioned | 22 September 1950 |
Decommissioned | 19 December 1964 |
Stricken | February 1965 |
Identification | Pennant number K437/F437 |
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Fate | Sold for scrap, 1968 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Loch-class frigate |
Displacement | 1,435 long tons (1,458 t) |
Length | 307 ft 9 in (93.80 m) |
Beam | 38 ft 9 in (11.81 m) |
Draught | 8 ft 9 in (2.67 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Range | 9,500 nautical miles (17,600 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
Complement | 114 |
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HMS Loch Lomond was a Loch-class frigate of the British Royal Navy. The ship was named after Loch Lomond in Scotland.
The ship was ordered from Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company, Dundee, Scotland on 2 February 1943, and laid down on 7 December 1943. Launched on 19 June 1944, and completed on 16 November 1944, the ship was commissioned soon after.[1]
Service history
World War II
Attached to the 17th Escort Group from 11 December 1944, until May 1945 the ship patrolled the waters off Scotland and Northern Ireland, and in the English Channel escorting convoys. After V-E Day the ship was nominated for service in East Indies. After modifications she sailed on 28 June for Ceylon. In August she was set to take part in "Operation Zipper", the recapture of British Malaya, though this was cancelled after the surrender of Japan. She remained at Singapore, supporting local operations until returning to the UK in April 1946 to be decommissioned.[1]
While in reserve in 1948 her pennant number was changed to F437.[1]
1950-1959
Loch Lomond was recommissioned on 22 September 1950 and served in the
She underwent modernisation between 1953 and 1955 before being recommissioned on 19 April 1955, returning to the Mediterranean Fleet, also seeing service in the Persian Gulf and as part of the East Coast of India Patrol. She returned to the UK in April 1956 to refit, sailing on 14 November for the Persian Gulf via the Cape of Good Hope, because of the closure of the Suez Canal. Duties in the Gulf and Indian Ocean occupied her until her return to the UK on 12 November 1957. Another major refit took up 1958 and most of 1959, before Loch Lomond was recommissioned in September.[1]
1960-1968
Loch Lomond returned to the Persian Gulf in February 1960 for further patrols and exercises. The ship returned to the UK on 26 January 1961. In July she joined the
In March 1963 she supported military operations in the
Placed on the Disposal List in February 1965 she remained at Portsmouth until 1967 when she was taken to Chatham to be stripped of equipment before being sold for scrap in 1968.[1]
References
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Marriott, Leo (1983). Royal Navy Frigates 1945–1983. Ian Allan Ltd. ISBN 0-71101-322-5.