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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:HMS_Loch_Shin_1944_IWM_FL_6056.jpg) Loch Shin in November 1944
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| History | |
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 United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Loch Shin |
| Builder | Swan Hunter |
| Laid down | 6 September 1943 |
| Launched | 23 February 1944 |
| Identification | Pennant number K421 |
| Fate | Transferred to New Zealand, 1948 |
| New Zealand | |
| Name | HMNZS Taupo |
| Commissioned | 1948 |
| Decommissioned | 1952 |
| Identification | F423 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1962 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Loch-class frigate |
| Displacement | 1,435 tons |
| Length | |
| Beam | 38.5 ft (11.7 m) |
| Draught |
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| Propulsion | 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts
4-cylinder vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) or Parsons single reduction geared turbines, 6,500 shp (4,800 kW) |
| Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h) |
| 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 Mark V on one single mounting HA MkIII**
4 × QF 2 pounder MkVII 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 |
HMNZS Taupo, originally HMS Loch Shin, was a Loch-class frigate which served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, and then in the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) from 1948 to 1961. She was scrapped in 1962.