HMS Loch Achanalt (K424)
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 Henry Robb, Leith, on 24 July 1942 as a River-class frigate, the order was changed, and ship laid down on 14 September 1943, and launched by Mrs. A.V. Alexander, wife of the First Lord of the Admiralty on 23 March 1944 and completed on 11 August 1944. After the war she was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy and renamed Pukaki.
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HMS Loch Achanalt (K424)
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 Henry Robb, Leith, on 24 July 1942 as a River-class frigate, the order was changed, and ship laid down on 14 September 1943, and launched by Mrs. A.V. Alexander, wife of the First Lord of the Admiralty on 23 March 1944 and completed on 11 August 1944. After the war she was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy and renamed Pukaki.
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HMS Loch Achanalt was a Loch-c ...... aland Navy and renamed Pukaki.
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1944-07-31
1948-09-13
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1944-08-11
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1943-09-14
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1942-07-24
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1.17348e+1
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1944-03-23
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Sold for scrapping, October 1965
loaned to Canada 1944, returned 1945. Sold to New Zealand, March 1948
returned to UK 1945
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*1 × QF Mark V gun on one sin ...... d 2 throwers for depth charges
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English Channel 1945
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*2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 ...... ion geared turbines, 6,500 shp
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HMS Loch Achanalt was a Loch-c ...... aland Navy and renamed Pukaki.
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HMS Loch Achanalt (K424)
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Loch Achanalt
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Pukaki
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