HMS Loch Morlich

	HMCS Loch Morlich (K517)
History
United Kingdom
Name	Loch Morlich
Namesake	Loch Morlich
Operator	Royal Navy
Ordered	13 February 1943
Builder	Swan Hunter
Laid down	15 July 1943
Launched	25 January 1944
Identification	Pennant number: K 517
Fate	Transferred to Royal Canadian Navy on completion. Returned 1945 and reduced to reserve fleet 1945, Sold to New Zealand 1948
Canada
Name	Loch Morlich
Operator	Royal Canadian Navy
Commissioned	17 July 1944
Decommissioned	20 June 1945
Identification	pennant number: K 517
Fate	Returned to United Kingdom 1945
New Zealand
Name	Tutira
Namesake	Lake Tūtira
Operator	Royal New Zealand Navy
Acquired	April 1949
Commissioned	19 April 1949
Decommissioned	September 1951
Identification	Pennant number: F 517
Honours and; awards	Korea 1950–51
Fate	Scrapped 1966
General characteristics
Class and type	Loch-class frigate
Displacement	1,435 tons
Length	307 ft 9 in (93.80 m)
Beam	38 ft 9 in (11.81 m)
Draught	8 ft 9 in (2.67 m)
Propulsion	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts; 4-cylinder vertical triple-expansion reciprocating engines, 5,500 hp (4,100 kW), or;; Parsons single reduction geared turbines, 6,500 shp (4,800 kW);
Speed	20 knots (37 km/h)
Range	9,500 nautical miles (17,600 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement	114
Armament	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 (or 2 × 40 mm Bofors A/A on 2 single mounts Mk.III); Up to 8 × 20 mm Oerlikon A/A on single mounts Mk.III; 2 × Squid triple-barrelled A/S mortars; 1 rail and 2 throwers for depth charges ;

Last updated October 05, 2024

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 and she was sold to the Royal New Zealand Navy and renamed Tutira.

War service

After commissioning Loch Morlich joined convoy escort group EG 6 based in Derry after working up at Tobermory. She patrolled the waters around the United Kingdom until April 1945 when the group was transferred across the Atlantic to Halifax. She remained on the Canadian side of the Atlantic until the end of May when she returned to the United Kingdom. She was decommissioned and returned to the United Kingdom 20 June 1945 at Sheerness alongside HMCS Loch Achanalt, another Loch-class loaner to the Royal Canadian Navy.^[2] She was reduced to reserve status and laid up in Sheerness, eventually being sold with six other Loch-class frigates in 1948.

Postwar service

Loch Morlich was transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy on 1 April 1949.^[3] Renamed Tutira, she was commissioned into the Royal New Zealand Navy on 19 April 1949.^[1] In 1950, along with HMNZS Pukaki, she sailed for Korea, taking part in the United Nations naval blockade during the Korean War, serving mainly as an escort. She took part in the Battle of Inchon serving as part of the screening force.^[4] After returning from Korean waters she was placed in reserve in September 1951. She sat laid up in Auckland from 1952 until sold for scrap in 1961^[1] and was broken up in 1966 at Hong Kong.^[2]

Citations

1 2 3 "HMS LOCH MORLICH (K 517), later HMNZS TUTIRA – Loch-class Frigate". naval-history.net. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
1 2 3 Macpherson, Ken; Burgess, John (1981). The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910–1981 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships. Toronto: Collins. ISBN 0-00216-856-1.
1 2 "HMCS Loch Morlich (K 517)". uboat.net. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
↑ Varhola, Michael J. (2000). Fire and Ice: The Korean War, 1950–1953. Da Capo Press. p. 142. ISBN 1882810449.

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References

Macpherson, Ken; Burgess, John. The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910–1981 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships. Collins: Toronto, 1981. ISBN 0-00216-856-1
McDougall, R J (1989) New Zealand Naval Vessels. Page 37–41. Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-477-01399-4

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[naval-history-1] 1 2 3 "HMS LOCH MORLICH (K 517), later HMNZS TUTIRA – Loch-class Frigate". naval-history.net. Retrieved 10 May 2014.

[Macpherson-2] 1 2 3 Macpherson, Ken; Burgess, John (1981). The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910–1981 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships. Toronto: Collins. ISBN 0-00216-856-1.

[uboat-3] 1 2 "HMCS Loch Morlich (K 517)". uboat.net. Retrieved 10 May 2014.

[Varhola-4] Varhola, Michael J. (2000). Fire and Ice: The Korean War, 1950–1953. Da Capo Press. p. 142. ISBN 1882810449.

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