HMS Loch Fyne (K429)

Career (UK)

Name:	HMS Loch Fyne
Builder:	Burntisland Shipbuilding Company, Fife
Laid down:	8 December 1943
Launched:	24 May 1944
Commissioned:	9 November 1944
Struck:	August 1970
Fate:	Sold for scrap
General characteristics
Class and type:	Loch class frigate
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:	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2 shafts 4-cylinder vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines, 5,500 ihp, or 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 (or 2 × 40 mm Bofors A/A on 2 single mounts Mk.III) Up to 8 × 20 mm Oerlikon A/A on single mounts Mk.III 2 × Squid triple barreled A/S mortars 1 rail and 2 throwers for depth charges

HMS Loch Fyne (K429), named after Loch Fyne in Scotland, was a Loch-class frigate of the British Royal Navy, built at Burntisland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. (Burntisland, Scotland) and launched in 1944 and finally scrapped in 1970.