HMS Loch Achanalt

HMCS Loch Achanalt
History
United Kingdom
Name	Loch Achanalt
Ordered	24 July 1942
Builder	Henry Robb, Leith
Yard number	342
Laid down	14 September 1943
Launched	23 March 1944
Completed	11 August 1944
Fate	Loaned to Canada 1944, returned 1945. Sold to New Zealand, March 1948
Canada
Name	Loch Achanalt
Commissioned	31 July 1944
Decommissioned	July 1945
Honours and awards	English Channel 1945
Fate	Returned to UK 1945
New Zealand
Name	Pukaki
Acquired	March 1948
Commissioned	13 September 1948
Decommissioned	May 1965
Fate	Sold for scrapping, October 1965
General characteristics
Class and type	Loch-class frigate
Displacement	1,435 tons
Length	286 ft (87 m) p/p 307.25 ft (93.65 m) o/a
Beam	38.5 ft (11.7 m)
Draught	8.75 ft (2.67 m) standard 13.25 ft (4.04 m) full
Propulsion	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts 4-cylinder vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines, 5,500 ihp or Parsons single reduction geared turbines, 6,500 shp
Range	730 tons oil fuel, 9,500 nautical miles (17,600 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement	114
Armament	1 × QF 4-inch (102 mm) Mark V gun on one single mounting HA MkIII** 4 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) MkVII guns on 1 quad mount MkVII 4 × 20 mm Oerlikon A/A on 2 twin mounts MkV (or 2 × 40 mm Bofors A/A on 2 single mounts Mk.III) up to 8 × 20 mm Oerlikon A/A on single mounts MkIII 2 × Squid triple barreled A/S mortars 1 rail and 2 throwers for depth charges

HMS Loch Achanalt was a Loch-class frigate of the Royal Navy that was loaned to and served with the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. Ordered from Henry Robb, Leith, on 24 July 1942 as a River-class frigate, the order was changed, and ship laid down on 14 September 1943, and launched by Mrs. A.V. Alexander, wife of the First Lord of the Admiralty on 23 March 1944 and completed on 11 August 1944.^[1] After the war she was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy and renamed Pukaki.