HMCS Loch Alvie (K428)

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HMCS Loch Alvie
Career (Canada)
Name: HMCS Loch Alvie (K428)
Builder: Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland
Laid down: August 31, 1943
Launched: April 14, 1944
Commissioned: October 8, 1944
Decommissioned: November 6, 1945
General characteristics
Class and type: LOCH Class
Displacement: 2,260 tons full load
Length: 93.6 meters (307 feet)
Beam: 11.9 meters (39 feet)
Draught: 2.7 meters (9 feet)
Propulsion: 2 shafts, VTE, 2 boilers, 5,500 ihp
Speed: 19 knots
Complement: 141
Electronic warfare
and decoys:
HF/DF (High Frequency Direction Finder)
Armament: 1 4" Mk.VIC single, 1 quad 2 Pdr., 2 20mm twin guns, 2 20mm single guns, 2 Squid ASW mortar, 2 depth charge throwers.

HMCS Loch Alvie (K428) was a Loch Class Frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. She was on loan from the Royal Navy and served as a convoy escort, mostly on convoys between Iceland and Murmansk.

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