HMS Loch Dunvegan (K425)
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HMS Loch Dunvegan was a Loch-class frigate of the British Royal Navy, named after Loch Dunvegan in Scotland. Launched in 1944, the ship saw service in the Second World War, and in the Mediterranean Fleet in the early 1950s, before being broken up in 1960.
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Loch Dunvegan in August 1944 | |
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Name | Loch Dunvegan |
Namesake | Loch Dunvegan |
Ordered | 19 January 1943 |
Builder | Charles Hill & Sons, Bristol |
Yard number | 297 |
Laid down | 29 September 1943 |
Launched | 25 March 1944 |
Completed | 25 June 1944 |
Commissioned | June 1944 |
Decommissioned | April 1947 |
Recommissioned | 1 May 1950 |
Decommissioned | November 1953 |
Identification | Pennant number K425/F425 |
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Fate | Sold for scrapping, 1960 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Loch-class frigate |
Displacement | 1,435 tons |
Length | 307 ft 9 in (93.80 m) |
Beam | 38 ft 9 in (11.81 m) |
Draught | 8 ft 9 in (2.67 m) |
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Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Range | 9,500 nautical miles (17,600 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
Complement | 114 |
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