HMS Loch Glendhu (K619)

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.

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	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) (steam engines) or 6,500 shp (4,800 kW) (steam turbines)
Propulsion	2 shafts 2 × vertical triple-expansion steam engines or 2 × Parsons steam turbines
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	Types 144 and 147B ASDIC Type 277 surface-search radar
Armament	1 × single QF 4-inch Mark V 1 × quadruple QF 2-pounder 2 × single Bofors AA guns 2–8 × single 20 mm Oerlikon AA guns 2 × Squid triple-barrelled anti-submarine mortars 1 rail and 2 throwers for 15 depth charges

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.