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Dates: 1945 - 1948 LOCH Class Twin Screw Fast Frigate ordered on 25th January 1943 from Smiths Dock, Shipbuilders at Middlesbrough and laid down on 13th December 1943 as Job Number 4781 (Yard Number 1130). The ship was launched on 7 July 1944 as the 1st Royal Navy ship to carry this name. Build was completed on 1st Feb. 1945. HMS LOCH ACHRAY was sold to New Zealand with five other LOCH Class Frigates in 1948. LOCH ACHRAY was renamed HM New Zealand Ship KANIERE by Lady Willis, wife of CinC Portsmouth. After work-up in Malta with three of the other LOCH Class also being transferred she arrived in Auckland in January 1949. HMNZS KANIERE was sold for demolition in Hong Kong and towed to the breaker’s yard in 1966.
Added on 16/11/2009
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HMS Loch Achray
1945 - 1948
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