HMS Lossie
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HMS Lossie (K303) was a Group II River class frigate of the Royal Navy which named all of this class of frigate after British rivers. The River Lossie is a river in Moray, Scotland and flows into the Moray Firth at Lossiemouth.
Although the Australian, Canadian and South African navies also leased this class of ship, they did not use the same naming system.
 A River class frigate. |
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| Length: | 283 ft p/p; 301.25 ft o/a |
| Beam: | 36.5 ft |
| Draught: | 9 ft; 13 ft full load |
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2 x Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp |
| Speed: | 20 kts (20.5 kts in turbine ships) |
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RN all groups;
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[edit] History
She was launched on 30 April 1943 under U.S. Navy contract by Canadian Vickers, Ltd. of Montreal, Canada, as PG-103 and named HMS Lossie after the River Lossie when transferred to the United Kingdom under the lend-lease scheme on 12 August 1943. She was used extensively on the North Atlantic on convoy patrols, but saw service in the Indian Ocean also. It was during her Indian Ocean patrols that, on 29 June 1944, the freighter Nellore was sunk. A week later HMS Lossie picked up 112 crewmen including the captain near the Chagos Archipelago and landed them at Addu Atoll.
She was returned to the U.S. Navy at Boston, Mass. on 28 January 1946 and then was sold to Panamanian company Cadio Compania de Navegacion S.A. on 13 November 1946 and registered as Teti. In turn, she was resold to Typaldos Brothers 88 Co. Ltd., in 1955 and renamed Adriatiki and operated under Greek papers out of Piraeus.
