Category Archives: Loch Class Frigates – RNZN

HMNZS Hawea and HMNZS Rotoiti at Yokosuka,May 11th 1951.

The RNZN has supported the meteorological and radio stations on Raoul Island which provided New Zealand with weather forecasting, shipping and aviation data every three hours. This image shows Loch Class Frigate HMNZS Rotoiti’s crew unloading government personnel via cane baskets at Fishing Rock, Raoul Island, November 1949.

HMNZS Rotoiti (F625) (right) and other ships at anchor. Ngoiro is the ferry(right).

Top – HMNZS Rotoiti (F625) (right) and other ships at anchor. Ngoiro is the ferry(right). Bottom – HMNZS Rotoiti entering the basin? – can anyone confirm and identify background ships. Suspect HMNZS Black Prince in background (twin Funnels) Possible Inverell or Kiama and Echuca and Stawell

HMNZS Tutira(F517) ex HMCS Loch Morlich (K517) re-fuelling from HMNZS Bellona in Tasman Sea, 1949. (Photos)

HMCS 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 HMNZS Tutira. HMS Loch Morlich LochContinue reading “HMNZS Tutira(F517) ex HMCS Loch Morlich (K517) re-fuelling from HMNZS Bellona in Tasman Sea, 1949. (Photos)”

HMNZS Pukaki was one of six ex-Royal Navy Loch-class anti-submarine frigates in the Royal New Zealand Navy. https://ift.tt/rybthfm

Along with HMNZS Tutira, Pukaki took part in the early phases of the Korean War, where their duties included escorting ships between Japan and the South Korean port of Pusan (Busan). via WordPress https://ift.tt/047x5Mc