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Career (Canada) |
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Name: |
HMCS Loch Morlich (K517) |
Builder: |
Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. |
Laid down: |
July 15, 1943 |
Launched: |
January 25, 1944 |
Commissioned: |
July 17, 1944 |
Decommissioned: |
June 20, 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 Morlich (K517) 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 was returned after the war.
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