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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.”