HMS Loch Glendhu (K619)

HMS Loch Glendhu was a Royal Navy Loch-class frigate named after Loch Glendhu in Scotland. She was built at the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company's shipyard in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland in 1944.

Loch Glendhu in February 1945
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Loch Glendhu
Namesake: Loch Glendhu
Ordered: 2 February 1943
Builder: Burntisland Shipbuilding Company
Laid down: 29 May 1944
Launched: 18 October 1944
Commissioned: 23 February 1945
Identification: pennant number K619
Fate: Scrapped November 1957
General characteristics
Class and type: Loch-class frigate
Displacement: 1,435 long tons (1,458 t)
Length: 307 ft 9 in (93.8 m)
Beam: 38 ft 9 in (11.8 m)
Draught: 8 ft 9 in (2.7 m)
Installed power:
  • 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
  • 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) (steam engines) or
  • 6,500 shp (4,800 kW) (steam turbines)
Propulsion:
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range: 9,500 nmi (17,600 km; 10,900 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement: 114
Sensors and
processing systems:
Armament:
  • 1 × single QF 4-inch Mark V
  • 1 × quadruple QF 2-pounder
  • 2 × single Bofors AA guns
  • 2–8 × single 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns
  • 2 × Squid triple-barrelled anti-submarine mortars
  • 1 rail and 2 throwers for 15 depth charges

Publications

  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.


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