HMS Loch Glendhu (K619)

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 & 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	2 shafts 2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines or 2 × Parsons steam turbines
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 & processing systems	Types 144 and 147B ASDIC Type 277 surface-search radar
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

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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