HMS Loch Eck (K422)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

InsertAltTextHere
Career (New Zealand) Royal New Zealand naval ensign
Commissioned: 1948
Decommissioned: 1966
General characteristics
Class and type: Loch class frigate
Displacement: 1,435 tons
Length: 286 ft (87 m) p/p
307 feet 3 inches (93.6 m) o/a
Beam: 38.5 ft (11.7 m)
Draught: 8.75 ft (2.67 m) standard
13 feet 3 inches (4.0 m) full
Propulsion: 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
2 shafts
4-cylinder vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines, 5,500 ihp, or
Parsons single reduction geared turbines, 6,500 shp
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h)
Range: 9,500 nautical miles (17,590 km) at 12 kt, 730 tons oil fuel
Complement: 114
Armament: 1 × QF 4 inch Mark V on 1 single mounting HA Mk.III**
4 × QF 2 pounder Mk.VII on 1 quad mount Mk.VII
4 × 20 mm Oerlikon A/A on 2 twin mounts Mk.V (or 2 × 40 mm Bofors A/A on 2 single mounts Mk.III)
Up to 8 × 20 mm Oerlikon A/A on single mounts Mk.III
2 × Squid triple barrelled A/S mortars
1 rail and 2 throwers for depth charges

HMS Loch Eck (K422), was a Loch class frigate of the Royal Navy during World War II, named after Loch Eck in Scotland.

She was launched on 25 April 1944 and sold to the Royal New Zealand Navy on 1 October 1948.