HMS Loch Achray (K426)

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Career

Class and type:	Loch class frigate
Name:	HMS Loch Achray
Builder:	Smiths Dock Co., Ltd., South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough
Laid down:	13 December 1943
Launched:	7 July 1944
Commissioned:	1 February 1945
Out of service:	Transferred to Royal New Zealand Navy on 7 September 1948
Career
Name:	HMNZS Kaniere
Acquired:	7 September 1948
Reclassified:	Training ship in 1961
Fate:	Sold for scrapping in September 1966
General characteristics
Displacement:	1,435 tons
Length:	286 feet (87 m) p/p 307 feet 3 inches (93.6 m) o/a
Beam:	38 feet 6 inches (11.7 m)
Draught:	8 feet 9 inches (2.7 m) standard 13 feet 3 inches (4.0 m) full
Propulsion:	Two Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2 shafts Parsons single reduction geared turbines, 6,500 shp
Speed:	20 knots (37 km/h)
Range:	9,500 nautical miles (17,590 km) at 12 kt, 730 tons oil fuel
Complement:	114
Armament:	1 × QF 4 inch Mark V 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 8 × 20 mm Oerlikon A/A on single mounts Mk.III 2 × Squid triple barrelled A/S mortars One rail and two throwers for depth charges

HMS Loch Achray (K426) was a Loch class frigate of the Royal Navy. She was built by Smith's Dock Co.Ltd. in South Bank-on-Tees and launched on 7 July 1944. She was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy and renamed HMNZS Kaniere in September 1948, and from January 1961 she was used as a training ship. She was sold in 1966 for breaking up in Hong Kong.