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HMS Loch Achray (K 426)

Frigate of the Loch class

NavyThe Royal Navy
TypeFrigate
ClassLoch 
PennantK 426 
Built bySmiths Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.) 
Ordered 
Laid down13 Dec, 1943 
Launched7 Jul, 1944 
Commissioned1 Feb, 1945 
End service 
Loss position
 
History

Transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy 7 September 1948 and renamed Kaniere.
Became a training ship in 1961.
Sold to be broken up for scrap in September 1966.

Commanding Officers:
T/A/Lt.Cdr. Leslie Hugh Stammers, RNVR
14 October 1944 - 27 June 1945

T/A/Lt.Cdr. C.J. Alldridge, RNR
27 June 1945 - 28 September 1945

T/Lt.Cdr. Harold Geeves Chesterman, DSC and Bar, RNR
28 September 1945 - still in command in October 1945 according to the Navy List 

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