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HMS Loch Shin (K 421)

Frigate of the Loch class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassLoch 
PennantK 421 
Built bySwan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd. (Wallsend-on-Tyne, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down6 Sep, 1943 
Launched23 Feb, 1944 
Commissioned10 Oct, 1944 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy on 3 September 1948 and renamed Taupo.
Sold to be broken up for scrap in 1961.

Commanding Officers:
T/A/Lt.Cdr. A.L. Turner, RNR
10 March 1944 – 13 November 1944

T/Lt.Cdr. Charles William Leadbetter, RNR
13 November 1944 - January 1945

Cdr. John Percy de Winton Kitcat, RN
January 1945 - 6 March 1945

T/Lt.Cdr. Percy Frederick Broadhead, RNR
6 March 1945 - 31 August 1945
DSC awarded on 21 August 1945

T/A/Lt.Cdr. Graham Butcher, DSC, RNVR
31 August 1945 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 


Noteable events involving Loch Shin include:

4 Feb, 1945
The German submarine U-1014 was sunk in the North Channel east of Malin Head, in position 55º17'N, 06º44'W, by depth charges from the British frigates HMS Loch Scavaig (Lt.Cdr. C.W. Hancock, RNR), HMS Nyasaland (T/A/Lt.Cdr. J. Scott, DSC, RNVR), HMS Papua (A/Lt.Cdr. C.W. Leadbetter, RNR) and HMS Loch Shin (Cdr. J.P. de W. Kitcat, RN). (see map)


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