Frigates – Loch Class – JCs Royal New Zealand Navy Ships and New Zealand Defence, Also other World Defence Updates

HMNZS Taupo – Loch Class – F421 HMNZS Taupo on winter patrol in Korea

HMNZS Taupo – Taupo in Malta

In April 1950 Taupo and her sister ship HMNZS Hawea went to serve with the Mediterranean Fleet at Malta. The RN sent two Bay-class frigates HMS St Austell Bay and HMS Veryan Bay to New Zealand. Taupo and Hawea returned to New Zealand in November 1950.

HMNZS Rotoiti (F625) was a Loch-class frigate of the Royal New Zealand Navy, which had formerly served in the British Royal Navy as HMS Loch Katrine at the end of World War II.

Service history[edit]World War II[edit]Built by Henry Robb of Leith, the ship was launched on 21 August 1944 and commissioned as Loch Katrine in December 1944. She served as an escort for the Gibraltar convoys until the end of World War II, and then in the Indian Ocean with the Eastern Fleet. The ship was decommissionedContinue reading “HMNZS Rotoiti (F625) was a Loch-class frigate of the Royal New Zealand Navy, which had formerly served in the British Royal Navy as HMS Loch Katrine at the end of World War II.”

HMNZS Tutira, ex-HMS Loch Morlich was a Loch-class frigate

HMNZS Tutiraex-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 Canadian Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Loch Morlich in Scotland. After the war she was returned to the Royal Navy andContinue reading “HMNZS Tutira, ex-HMS Loch Morlich was a Loch-class frigate”

HMS Loch Achanalt (K424/HMNZS PUKAKI (F424)

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.Continue reading “HMS Loch Achanalt (K424/HMNZS PUKAKI (F424)”