HMS Loch Dunvegan (K425)

Loch Dunvegan in August 1944
History
United Kingdom
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
Honours and awards	Arctic, 1944 North Sea, 1945
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)
Propulsion	2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2 shafts 4-cylinder vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines, 5,500 hp (4,100 kW)
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h)
Range	9,500 nautical miles (17,600 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement	114
Armament	1 × QF 4 inch Mark V on 1 single mounting HA Mk.III** 4 × QF 2-pounder Mk.VII on 1 quad mount Mk.VII 4 × 20 mm Oerlikon A/A on 2 twin mounts Mk.V (or 2 × 40 mm Bofors A/A on 2 single mounts Mk.III) Up to 8 × 20 mm Oerlikon A/A on single mounts Mk.III 2 × Squid triple barreled A/S mortars 1 rail and 2 throwers for depth charges

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.