HMS Loch Fyne (K429)

Loch Fyne in October 1944
History
United Kingdom
Name:	HMS Loch Fyne
Namesake:	Loch Fyne
Ordered:	2 February 1943
Builder:	Burntisland Shipbuilding Company
Yard number:	284
Laid down:	8 December 1943
Launched:	24 May 1944
Completed:	9 November 1944
Commissioned:	November 1944
Decommissioned:	April 1946
Recommissioned:	January 1951
Decommissioned:	March 1952
Recommissioned:	14 February 1956
Decommissioned:	6 May 1963
Identification:	pennant number K429/F429
Motto:	Dion Na Mo Marbhshruth ("I will leave safety in my wake")
Honours and awards:	Atlantic 1945
Fate:	Sold for scrapping, 1970
General characteristics
Class and type:	Loch-class frigate
Displacement:	1,435 tons
Length:	286 ft (87 m) p/p 307 ft 3 in (93.65 m) o/a
Beam:	38 ft 6 in (11.73 m)
Draught:	8 ft 9 in (2.67 m) standard 13 ft 3 in (4.04 m) full
Propulsion:	2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers 2 shafts 4-cylinder vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW)
Speed:	20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Range:	9,500 nautical miles (17,590 km) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph), 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 was a Loch-class frigate of the British Royal Navy, built by the Burntisland Shipbuilding Company Ltd, Burntisland, Fife, Scotland, and named after Loch Fyne in Scotland. The ship was launched in 1944, and served at the end of World War II. Recommissioned in 1951, she served in the Persian Gulf and was scrapped in 1970.

Commissioned in November 1944, after sea trials and modifications Loch Fyne joined the 18th Escort Group on 22 December to support convoys on the UK–Gibraltar route. On 27 February 1945 the ship transferred to "Force 38" in the South-Western Approaches for anti-submarine patrols. On 9 April she transferred to Task Group 122.2, based at Portsmouth, to provide convoy support in the English Channel.

After the German surrender in May 1945, Loch Fyne was transferred to Scapa Flow to serve with the Home Fleet supporting the re-occupation of Norway, escorting captured U-boats from Trondheim to Loch Ryan as part of "Operation Deadlight". After a refit, in September 1945 she sailed for service with the East Indies Escort Force in the Indian Ocean, repatriating former prisoners of war and internees, and was deployed for Air-Sea Rescue duties while based at Trincomalee. The ship returned to Portsmouth in April 1946 and was decommissioned.