&sq=&lang=&file=File:HMNZS_Rotoiti_(F625)_underway_c1964.jpg) HMNZS Rotoiti underway circa 1964
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Loch Katrine |
| Namesake | Loch Katrine |
| Ordered | 25 January 1943 |
| Builder | Henry Robb, Leith |
| Yard number | 347 |
| Laid down | 31 December 1943 |
| Launched | 21 August 1944 |
| Completed | 29 December 1944 |
| Commissioned | December 1944 |
| Decommissioned | May 1946 |
| Fate | Sold to New Zealand, 1948 |
| New Zealand | |
| Name | HMNZS Rotoiti |
| Acquired | 1948 |
| Commissioned | 7 May 1949 |
| Decommissioned | April 1953 |
| Recommissioned | February 1957 |
| Decommissioned | August 1965 |
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| Fate | Sold for scrapping, 1966 |
| 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; 23 mph) |
| Range | 9,500 nmi (17,600 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 114 |
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HMNZS Rotoiti (F625) was a Loch-class frigate of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN), which had formerly served in the British Royal Navy as HMS Loch Katrine at the end of World War II.