HMCS Loch Morlich (K517)
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History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Loch Morlich |
Namesake | Loch Morlich |
Operator | Royal Navy |
Ordered | 13 February 1943 |
Builder | Swan Hunter |
Laid down | 15 July 1943 |
Launched | 25 January 1944 |
Identification | Pennant number: K 517 |
Fate | Transferred to Royal Canadian Navy on completion. Returned 1945 and reduced to reserve fleet 1945 , Sold to New Zealand 1948 |
Canada | |
Name | Loch Morlich |
Operator | Royal Canadian Navy |
Commissioned | 17 July 1944 |
Decommissioned | 20 June 1945 |
Identification | pennant number: K 517 |
Fate | Returned to United Kingdom 1945 |
New Zealand | |
Name | Tutira |
Namesake | Lake Tūtira |
Operator | Royal New Zealand Navy |
Acquired | April 1949 |
Commissioned | 19 April 1949 |
Decommissioned | September 1951 |
Identification | Pennant number: F 517 |
Honours and awards | Korea 1950–51[1] |
Fate | Scrapped 1966 |
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 |
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Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h) |
Range | 9,500 nautical miles (17,600 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
Complement | 114 |
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HMS Loch Morlich was a Loch-class frigate that never saw service with the Royal Navy. Ordered during World War II, she saw service instead with the Royal Canadian Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Loch Morlich in Scotland. After the war she was returned to the Royal Navy and she was sold to the Royal New Zealand Navy and renamed Tutira.
Loch Morlich which was ordered from Swan Hunter on 13 February 1943. She was laid down 15 July 1943 and launched 25 January 1944. Upon completion she was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and commissioned on 17 July 1944, at Wallsend-on-Tyne.[2][3]