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Description:
HMNZS PUKAKI
Name: HMCS Loch Achanalt
Ordered: 24 July 1942
Builder: Henry Robb, Leith
Yard number: 342
Laid down: 14 September 1943
Launched: 23 March 1944
Completed: 11 August 1944
Commissioned: 31 July 1944
Decommissioned: July 1945
Honours and
awards: English Channel 1945
Fate: Sold to New Zealand, March 1948
Career
Name: HMNZS Pukaki
Acquired: March 1948
Commissioned: 13 September 1948
Decommissioned: May 1965
Fate: Sold for scrapping, October 1965
General characteristics
Class and type: Loch class frigate
Displacement: 1,435 tons
Length: 286 ft (87 m) p/p
307.25 ft (93.65 m) o/a
Beam: 38.5 ft (11.7 m)
Draught: 8.75 ft (2.67 m) standard
13.25 ft (4.04 m) full
Propulsion: 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts
4-cylinder vertical triple expansion reciprocating engines, 5,500 ihp or Parsons single reduction geared turbines, 6,500 shp
Range: 730 tons oil fuel, 9,500 nautical miles (17,600 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement: 114
Armament: • 1 × QF 4 inch Mark V on one single mounting HA MkIII**
• 4 × QF 2 pounder MkVII on 1 quad mount MkVII
• 4 × 20 mm Oerlikon A/A on 2 twin mounts MkV (or 2 x 40 mm Bofors A/A on 2 single mounts Mk.III)
• up to 8 × 20 mm Oerlikon A/A on single mounts MkIII
• 2 × Squid triple barreled A/S mortars
• 1 rail and 2 throwers for depth charges
Photo Credits: The Late Allan Green Collection Vic Australia
Details: Wikipedia
Cheers and GB
Gordy
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