• Thumbnail for Loch-class frigate
    The Loch class was a class of anti-submarine (A/S) frigate built for the Royal Navy and her Allies during World War II. They were an innovative design...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Loch Insh
    HMS Loch Insh was a Loch-class frigate of the Royal Navy, named after Loch Insh in Scotland. She was built by Henry Robb of Leith and launched on 10 May...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Loch Dunvegan (K425)
    HMS Loch Dunvegan was a Loch-class frigate of the British Royal Navy, named after Loch Dunvegan in Scotland. Launched in 1944, the ship saw service in...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Loch Lomond (K437)
    HMS Loch Lomond was a Loch-class frigate of the British Royal Navy. The ship was named after Loch Lomond in Scotland. The ship was ordered from Caledon...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Loch Alvie (K428)
    HMS Loch Alvie was a Loch-class frigate of the Royal Navy, named after Loch Alvie in Scotland. She was ordered by the Royal Navy during World War II,...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Loch Achanalt
    HMS Loch Achanalt was a Loch-class frigate of the Royal Navy that was loaned to and served with the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. Ordered from...
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  • Thumbnail for Tribal-class frigate
    Tribal class, frigates were ordered and built as sloops to carry out similar duties to the immediate post war improved Black Swan-class sloops and Loch-class...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Loch Fada (K390)
    HMS Loch Fada was the lead ship of the Loch-class frigates of the British Royal Navy, built by John Brown & Company of Clydebank, Scotland, and named after...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Loch More (K639)
    HMS Loch More was a Loch-class frigate of the Royal Navy named after Loch More in Scotland. Mason, Geoffrey B. (1998). Gordon Smith (ed.). "HMS Loch More...
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  • Thumbnail for 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...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Loch Killin (K391)
    HMS Loch Killin was a Loch-class frigate of the Royal Navy, named after Loch Killin in Scotland. The ship was laid down at Burntisland Shipbuilding Company's...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Loch Achray (K426)
    HMS Loch Achray 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. After...
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  • Thumbnail for Bay-class frigate
    based on the hulls of incomplete Loch class anti-submarine (A/S) frigates. In 1959 and 1961, four frigates of the class (Bigbury Bay, Burghead Bay, Morecambe...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Loch Fyne (K429)
    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...
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  • Thumbnail for HMNZS Hawea (F422)
    HMNZS Hawea (F422), formerly HMS Loch Eck (K422), was one of six Loch-class frigates that served in both the Royal Navy (RN) and the Royal New Zealand...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Loch Morlich
    HMS Loch Morlich was a Loch-class frigate that never saw service with the Royal Navy. Ordered during World War II, she saw service instead with the Royal...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Loch Killisport (K628)
    HMS Loch Killisport (K628/F628) was a Loch-class frigate of the British Royal Navy, named after Loch Killisport (Scottish Gaelic: Caolisport) in Scotland...
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  • Thumbnail for HMNZS Rotoiti (F625)
    HMNZS Rotoiti (F625) (category Loch-class frigates of the Royal New Zealand Navy)
    Rotoiti (F625) was a Loch-class frigate of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN), which had formerly served in the British Royal Navy as HMS Loch Katrine at the...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Loch Katrine (K625)
    HMS Loch Katrine was a Loch-class frigate of the British Royal Navy, built by Henry Robb at Leith, Scotland, and named after Loch Katrine in Scotland...
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    still suffered from limited speed. These anti-aircraft frigates, built on incomplete Loch-class frigate hulls, were similar to the United States Navy's destroyer...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Bigbury Bay (K606)
    Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, named for Bigbury Bay in Devon. The ship was originally ordered on 19 January 1943 as a Loch-class...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Burghead Bay
    Bay-class anti-aircraft frigate of the British Royal Navy, named for Burghead Bay in Morayshire. The ship was originally ordered as a Loch-class frigate from...
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  • Thumbnail for HMNZS Taupo (F423)
    HMNZS Taupo, originally HMS Loch Shin, was a Loch-class frigate which served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, and then in the Royal New...
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  • the Loch-class frigate HMSAS Transvaal, the Marion and Prince Edward islands were annexed from Great Britain. He commanded the Rothesay-class frigate SAS...
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  • Thumbnail for River-class frigate
    design was later elaborated into the Loch class and subsequently the Bay class. Two hundred and forty-three frigates were built in Britain, Canada and Australia...
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  • Thumbnail for Castle-class corvette
    River-class frigate. The larger Rivers were too expensive to produce at the required rate and needed larger slipways. In response, the Loch-class frigate was...
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  • down in 1944. There was also a South African Loch-class frigate SAS Good Hope, which was laid down as HMS Loch Boisdale in 1943 but renamed and transferred...
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  • Thumbnail for HMS Widemouth Bay (K615)
    from Harland and Wolff at Belfast on 2 February 1943 as a Loch-class frigate to be named Loch Frisa and laid down on 26 April 1944 as Admiralty Job Number...
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  • Hebrides#Loch Maddy Maddyness, an online newspaper HMS Loch Maddy (K630), an unbuilt WWII Loch-class frigate SS Loch Maddy (sunk 1940), see List of shipwrecks in...
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  • PCE-842 class patrol craft escort - 68 built Black Swan-class sloop – 12 (original) + 25 (modified) River-class frigate – 151 built Loch-class frigate – 26...
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