HMS Loch Insh

Loch Insh in October 1944
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Loch Insh
Namesake	Loch Insh
Ordered	25 January 1943
Builder	Henry Robb, Leith, Scotland
Yard number	846
Laid down	November 1943
Launched	10 May 1944
Completed	20 October 1944
Commissioned	November 1944
Decommissioned	April 1946
Recommissioned	21 September 1950
Decommissioned	22 June 1962
Identification	Pennant number K433/F433
Honours and awards	Atlantic 1944 Arctic 1945
Fate	Sold to Malaysia in 1963
Malaysia
Name	KD Hang Tuah
Namesake	Hang Tuah
Acquired	1963
Commissioned	1963
Decommissioned	1971
Out of service	1977
Identification	F 443
Fate	Retired and scrapped in 1977
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	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2 shafts 4-cylinder vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines, 5,500 hp (4,101 kW)
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range	9,500 nmi (17,600 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement	114
Armament	1 × QF 4-inch (100 mm) Mark V gun 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 Insh was a Loch-class frigate of the Royal Navy, named after Loch Insh in Scotland. She was built by Henry Robb of Leith and launched on 10 May 1944. After service at the end of World War II she was decommissioned, but reactivated in 1950 and served, mostly in the Persian Gulf, until 1962. The ship was sold to the Royal Malaysian Navy in 1963 and renamed KD Hang Tuah (F433). She was scrapped in 1977.^[1]