HMS Loch Glendhu (K619)
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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.
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Loch Glendhu in February 1945 | |
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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) |
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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 |
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