HMAS Lachlan
River-class frigate that served the Royal Australian Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMAS Lachlan (K364/F364) (later HMNZS Lachlan (F364)) was a River-class frigate that served the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1945 to 1949. The vessel was later transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy serving as surveyor until 1975 and was eventually scrapped in 1993.
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HMAS Lachlan in 1946 | |
History | |
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Australia | |
Name | Lachlan |
Namesake | Lachlan River |
Builder | Mort's Dock & Engineering Company, Sydney |
Laid down | 22 March 1943 |
Launched | 25 March 1944 |
Commissioned | 14 February 1945 |
Decommissioned | 31 May 1949 |
Fate | Transferred to Royal New Zealand Navy |
New Zealand | |
Name | Lachlan |
Commissioned | 5 October 1949 |
Decommissioned | February 1975 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | River-class frigate |
Displacement | 2220 tonnes fully loaded |
Length | 91.8 metres, 86.3 at waterline |
Beam | 11.2 metres |
Propulsion | 2x shaft, two Admiralty 3 drum boilers, 4 cylinder triple expansion oil fired |
Speed | 20 knots |
Complement | 140 in RNZN service |
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