HMS Loch Fyne (K429)

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Career (UK) RN Ensign
Name: HMS Loch Fyne
Builder: Burntisland Shipbuilding Company, Fife
Laid down: 8 December 1943
Launched: 24 May 1944
Commissioned: 9 November 1944
Struck: August 1970
Fate: Sold for scrap
General characteristics
Class and type: Loch class frigate
Displacement: 1,435 tons
Length: 286 feet (87 m) p/p
307 feet 3 inches (93.6 m) o/a
Beam: 38 feet 6 inches (11.7 m)
Draught: 8 feet 9 inches (2.7 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 barreled A/S mortars
1 rail and 2 throwers for depth charges

HMS Loch Fyne (K429), named after Loch Fyne in Scotland, was a Loch-class frigate of the British Royal Navy, built at Burntisland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. (Burntisland, Scotland) and launched in 1944 and finally scrapped in 1970.

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