HMS Loch Glendhu (K619)

Loch Glendhu in February 1945
History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Loch Glendhu
Namesake: Loch Glendhu
Ordered: 2 February 1943
Builder: Burntisland Shipbuilding Company
Laid down: 29 May 1944
Launched: 18 October 1944
Commissioned: 23 February 1945
Identification: pennant number K619
Fate: Scrapped November 1957
General characteristics
Class and type: Loch-class frigate
Displacement: 1,435 long tons (1,458 t)
Length: 307 ft 9 in (93.8 m)
Beam: 38 ft 9 in (11.8 m)
Draught: 8 ft 9 in (2.7 m)
Installed power:
Propulsion:
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range: 9,500 nmi (17,600 km; 10,900 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement: 114
Sensors and
processing systems:
Armament:

HMS Loch Glendhu was a Royal Navy Loch-class frigate named after Loch Glendhu in Scotland. She was built at the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company's shipyard in Burntisland, Fife, Scotland in 1944.

Publications

  • Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.


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