HMS Loch Alvie (K428)

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HMS Loch Alvie (K428) was a Loch-class frigate of the Royal Navy, named after Loch Alvie in Scotland. She was laid down by Barclay, Curle & Company at Glasgow on 31 August 1943, launched on 14 January 1944 and commissioned on 10 August 1944.

In World War II she was loaned to the Royal Canadian Navy and served as a convoy escort, mostly on convoys between Iceland and Murmansk. She was decommissioned on 11 June 1945 and returned to the Royal Navy. She was scrapped in 1965.