HMS Loch More (K639)
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Name | HMS Loch More |
Namesake | Loch More |
Builder | Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company |
Laid down | 16 March 1944 |
Launched | 3 October 1944 |
Commissioned | 24 February 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number K639 |
Fate | Scrapped Thos. W. Ward, August 1963 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Loch-class frigate |
Displacement | 1,435 long tons (1,458 t) |
Length | 307 ft 9 in (93.80 m) |
Beam | 38 ft 9 in (11.81 m) |
Draught | 8 ft 9 in (2.67 m) |
Propulsion |
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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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HMS Loch More was a Loch-class frigate of the Royal Navy named after Loch More in Scotland.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Mason, Geoffrey B. (1998). Gordon Smith (ed.). "HMS Loch More (K 639) - Loch-class Frigate". naval-history.net. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
Publications
[edit]- 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.