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Frigates: Loch Class; HMNZS Taupo
Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2019 3:43 am
by Brian James
Part of the 11th Frigate Squadron,Loch Class Frigate HMNZS Taupo (Ex Loch Shin)..These must have been hell to crew in the Southern Ocean environs,as far South as Antarctica.
Re: Frigates: Loch Class; HMNZS Taupo
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 3:37 am
by Brian James
Loch Class Frigate HMNZS Taupo (Ex HMS Loch Shin) pictured as she returns to HMNB Devonport from her Korean deployment,November 1953.
Re: Frigates: Loch Class; HMNZS Taupo
Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2021 5:37 pm
by Pelican
TAUPO
This photo was taken from Taupo in 1950 as we both approached Stromboli.
We were transferring our mail for posting to the UK as she was soon detaching after a 3 month period working with us, the 3rd FF, along with Hawea, and would be calling in at Malta on their way home.
For info those 2 pairs of 'doors' kept the Boys mess nice and cool in the right conditions - Pelican was originally designed as a survey ship.