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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 Loch Fada in the Inner Hebrides. The ship was laid down on 8 June 1943, launched on 14 December, and commissioned in April 1944. She was attached to Captain Johnny Walker's 2nd Escort Group which was detailed to guard the Western Approaches of the British Isles. After the war she was attached to the Londonderry Flotilla until 1952.

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  • 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 Loch Fada in the Inner Hebrides. The ship was laid down on 8 June 1943, launched on 14 December, and commissioned in April 1944. She was attached to Captain Johnny Walker's 2nd Escort Group which was detailed to guard the Western Approaches of the British Isles. After the war she was attached to the Londonderry Flotilla until 1952. Recommissioned in 1955, she operated in the Persian Gulf. After a period of fishery protection after the first "Cod War" between Great Britain and Iceland she served in the Far East from 1962, and supported operations during the Indonesian Confrontation. After decommissioning in 1969 she was used as a testbed in the development of Sea Wolf surface-to-air missiles, and was finally scrapped in 1970. (en)
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  • *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 *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 (en)
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  • April 1952 (en)
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  • *Normandy 1944 *English Channel 1945 *Atlantic 1945 (en)
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  • Pennant number K390/F390 (en)
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  • *2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers *2 shafts *4-cylinder vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines, (en)
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  • 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 Loch Fada in the Inner Hebrides. The ship was laid down on 8 June 1943, launched on 14 December, and commissioned in April 1944. She was attached to Captain Johnny Walker's 2nd Escort Group which was detailed to guard the Western Approaches of the British Isles. After the war she was attached to the Londonderry Flotilla until 1952. (en)
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