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	Loch Killin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Loch Killin is a small loch in the Monadhliath Mountains, in Highland, Scotland.
		It is about 1.2 miles long, and is one of numerous small lochs close to the southern end of Loch Ness, the southernmost point of which lies nine miles to the west.
		The ship HMS Loch Killin was named after the loch.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Loch_Killin (87 words)

	HMS Loch Killin - TheBestLinks.com - Royal Navy, Scotland, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, TheBestLinks.com:Stub, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		HMS Loch Killin - TheBestLinks.com - Royal Navy, Scotland, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub, TheBestLinks.com:Stub,...
		HMS Loch Killin, Royal Navy, Scotland, TheBestLinks.com:Find or fix a stub...
		HMS Loch Killin is a ship of the Royal Navy and is named after Loch Killin in Scotland.
	www.thebestlinks.com /HMS_Loch_Killin.html (89 words)

	HMS Loch Killin: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		HMS Loch Killin is a ship of the Royal Navy The royal navy of the united kingdom is the "senior service" of the armed services, being the oldest of its three branches....
		HMS Loch Glendu Hms loch glendu is a ship of the royal navy and is named after loch glendu in scotland....
		HMS Loch Killisport Hms loch killisport is a ship of the royal navy and is named after loch killisport in scotland....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /h/hms_loch_killin2 (294 words)

	Squid (weapon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Literally ordered directly from the drawing board in 1942, this weapon was rushed into service in May 1943 onboard HMS Ambuscade.
		The first production unit was installed on HMS Hadleigh Castle, it went on to be installed on 70 frigates and corvettes during the second world war.
		The first successful use was by HMS Loch Killin on 31 July 1944, when she sank Unterseeboot 333.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Squid_(mortar) (352 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - William Carmichael: HMS Loch Killin
		Your Dads war would be similar to mine, I served on the HMS Killin, HMS Griffin(destroyer) HMS Flamingo(sloop) Arethusa(cruiser)Convoys to Malta, Action with 8th Army bombarding the Libyan coast we had to put up with Stuka dive bombers,U-Boats,High level German and Italian Air crafts we also had to keep Italian Navy botteled up in Taranto.
		The majority of the crew on th Killin was young men, I was 22 but I had 4 years experience some of the lads had been survivers 1,2 or 3 times from previous ships, an excellent crew and captain we gave 100%.
		The HMS Lock Killin had a very good war record it was the crew and officers that made it so, your dad James Alfred Campbell was part of that crew, I think you and your family are very proud of him.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/32/a2384732.shtml (3899 words)

	Captain Johnny Walker Royal Navy - Scourge of the U Boats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This could indeed be HMS Kite entering Gladstone dock, at the same time and as part of, Walker's group.
		Their apparent indifference to the fate of HMS Kite is sad, she was, after all, Walkers Command for a while.
		HMS Starling at once engaged with gunfire, scoring hits with both her four inch and smaller armament.
	www.mikekemble.com /ww2/walker1a.html (6965 words)

	U Boats sunk by Captain Walker RN and his 2nd Support Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Because the recoil was mostly absorbed in resetting the springs on the spigot, the whole weapon was light and could be mounted on a small ships deck without much alteration.
		The destroyer HMS Westcott took the first operational Hedgehog in January 1942 and this was the destroyer that claimed the first kill with the Hedgehog, on February 2nd 1942.
		Its is quite possible the HMS Westcott recorded the first "death" of a U Boat by hedgehog in that she sank U581.
	www.mikekemble.com /ww2/walker2.html (620 words)

	Holidays in Scotland: Holiday Cottages in Perth, Killin, Lochearnhead, Balquhidder, Crieff, Dunkeld, Pitlochry, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Built in 1996 it is furnished to a high standard and has fitted carpets and electric heaters in all rooms as well as a log burning stove in the sitting area.
		Killin is on the edge of the Trossachs National Park, 20 miles from Loch Lomond, 30 miles from Pitlochry, 35 miles from Stirling, 40 miles from Perth and 50 miles from the west coast resort of Oban.
		Large numbers breeding or overwintering duck, geese, and whooper swans are on the loch, while the surrounding wet fields have breeding snipe, redshank, and lapwing.
	www.scotia-sc.com /holidayelite/perthbrochures.asp (1349 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		At 1438 the same day, U-155 had unsuccessfully attacked the Rozewie with 20 rounds from the deck gun, but was forced to break off the attack when the ship returned fire with her armament of one 152-mm gun and three machine guns.
		Although CDR Stubbs received a DSO for his part in the action, his decision to ram was based on the erroneous notion that is was better to destroy a U-boat than to ensure the safe arrival of the convoy.
		HMS Tartar, HMS Ashanti, HMCS Haida and HMCS Iroquois maneuvered to a favorable position and attacked, sinking six of the seven ships, including the escort.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/august/06Aug.txt (1217 words)

	CHAPTER 29 New Zealanders in the Royal Navy \| NZETC
		There were seventeen of them in the Trinidad when she sailed from Loch Ewe on 20 March 1942 with two destroyers as escort to a convoy of nineteen ships, two of which were sunk by German bombers on the 28th.
		On 30 April 1942 HMS Edinburgh, acting as close cover to a convoy escorted by six destroyers, four corvettes, and a trawler, was hit by two torpedoes from a U-boat about 180 miles north-east from the North Cape of Norway.
		He was first lieutenant in HMS Brissenden which, in company with another destroyer, sank a German tanker and its armed escort off Bordeaux in November 1944, and in HMS Redpole with the British Pacific Fleet.
	www.nzetc.org /tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Navy-c29.html (13297 words)

	NAVY News :: Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Commanding one of the British warships involved, the new Loch class frigate HMS Loch Killin, was LCDR Stanley Darling, RANR.
		The role of the Second Escort Group during the Normandy landings was to patrol the English Channel for U-boat activity.
		On D-Day, Ajax was involved with the bombardment of German positions ashore with her 6-inch guns.
	www.defence.gov.au /news/NAVYNEWS/EDITIONS/4709/feature/feature01.htm (535 words)

	6 August 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		HMS Tartar, HMS Ashanti, HMCS Haida and HMCS Iroquois manoeuvred to a favourable position and attacked, sinking six of the seven ships, including the escort.
		U-736 (Type VIIC) is sunk in the Bay of Biscay west of St. Nazaire, at position 47.19N, 04.16W, by depth charges from the British frigate HMS Loch Killin.
		The German submarine U-736 is sunk in the Bay of Biscay west of St. Nazaire, in position 47.19N, 04.16W, by depth charges from the RN frigate HMS Loch Killin.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1944/08/06.htm (1232 words)

	U-Boat Operations
		On 15th April 1945 in English channel, U 1063 was operating near convoy TCB 128 and was detected by HMS Loch Killin (Lt-Cdr S Darling) of the 17th Escort Group.
		Loch Killin overcame the difficulties, after 3 Squid attacks by the frigate KL Karl-Heinz Stephan was forced to surface his boat, breaking surface on the port side of Loch Killin.
		As the boat sank, Loch Killin dropped depth charges by it, after which according to various sources either 19 or 17 survivors were rescued, 6 of them wounded, and landed at Plymouth to become POWs.
	www.ubootwaffe.net /ops/boat.cgi?boat=1063 (303 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Frigate HMS Loch Killin of the Loch class
		N.W. Duck, DSC, RNR) and the British frigate HMS Loch Killin (Lt.Cdr.
		The German submarine U-736 was sunk in the Bay of Biscay west of St. Nazaire, in position 47.19N, 04.16W, by depth charges from the British frigate HMS Loch Killin (Lt.Cdr.
		The German submarine U-1063 was sunk in the English Channel west of Land´s End, in position 50.08.54N, 03.53.24W, by depth charges from the British frigate HMS Loch Killin (Lt.Cdr.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/229.html (155 words)

	Frigates
		HMS Loch Alvie in Floating Dock, April 1950.
		HMS Loch Ruthven, at the breakers, April 1969.
		HMS Owen (built at Chatham and completed as a Survey vessel) seen here leaving the harbour in Malta in 1955 on its way to the Gulf.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /frigates.htm (1178 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		HMS Furious was detached from the Home Fleet with three escorting destroyers, HMS Isis, Ilex & Imogen and proceeded to enter a heretofore-unnamed fjord, which was immediately dubbed "Furious" fjord.
		It was noted that the 250s blew large holes in the ice, and it was felt that the "runways" were made unserviceable.
		The crew of the first PBY drops four depth charges that damages the sub; a few minutes later, the crew of the second aircraft drops four more depth charges from an altitude of 50 feet.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/april/15Apr.txt (1778 words)

	Discount Hotels in the United Kingdom Book Online Hotels Index T
		The Killin Hotel Perthshire Killin Perthshire FK21 8TP The Hotel is situated in the central Highlands at the west end of the Loch Tay.
		Killin is arguably the most picturesque village in Scotland, surrounded by mountains, rivers, and lochs but still within easy driving distance from Edinburgh and Glasgow.
		The Rowardennan Hotel by Dryman Loch Lomond Scotland G63 0AR Situated on the rugged eastern banks of Loch Lomond in the magnificent Queen Elizabeth Forest, the Rowardennan Hotel by Dryman has breathtaking views of Ben Lomond.
	www.hotelprices.co.uk /ukhott.htm (8412 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Sloop HMS Starling of the Modified Black Swan class
		The German submarine U-226 was sunk at 0700hrs on 6 November 1943 in the North Atlantic east of Newfoundland, in position 44.49N, 41.13W, by depth charges from the British sloops HMS Starling, HMS Woodcock and HMS Kite.
		The German submarine U-264 was sunk at 1707hrs on 19 February 1944 in the North Atlantic, in position 48.31N, 22.05W, by depth charges from the British sloops HMS Woodpecker and HMS Starling.
		The German submarine U-653 was sunk in the North Atlantic, in position 53.46N, 24.35W, by depth charges from a Swordfish aircraft of the British escort carrier HMS Vindex, and by depth charges from the British sloops HMS Starling and HMS Wild Goose.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/3948.html (513 words)

	[No title]
		Killin loch runs parallel to the road and I realize that I have never seen such an achingly beautiful setting in my life.
		The loch itself extends for miles beyond the horizon and fl hills border both sides.
		The illumination is from the same style gas lamps as those at Killin and the open fire is blazing with lumps of peat for fuel.
	www.xfilesuk.com /html/fanfic/stories/txt/we_are_one.txt (17116 words)

	Rantburg: Tomorrow's news today!...
		Ocean, which left with Type 23 frigate HMS Northumberland, is to join the rest of a Royal Navy Task Force for exercises in the eastern Mediterranean.
		She was launched on 11 October 1995 and named by Her Majesty The Queen on 20 February 1998, at the yard of the prime contractor Vickers Shipbuilding Engineering Limited, prior to the delivery voyage to her base port of Devonport.
		HMS Ocean is the sixth ship to bear the name, the most recent being a Light Fleet Carrier also built on the Clyde and commissioned on 30 June 1945.
	www.rantburg.com /?D=1/16/2003 (12834 words)

	List of Royal Navy ship names
		HMS Iron Duke - Jellicoe flagship at Jutland
		HMS Thunderbolt - (submarine HMS Thetis renamed and recommissioned following salvage)
		HMS Tututankhamen - (intended for submarine P.311, but the boat was lost before name formally assigned)
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/li/list_of_royal_navy_ship_names.html (143 words)

	Navy League of Australia - State Divisions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		LCDR Darling - for courage, resolution and skill in HMS Loch Killin Anti-U-Boat operations when U-333 was destroyed in Plymouth Command - 31 Jul 44.
		BAR TO DSC - for courage, resolution and skill in HMS Loch Killin in Anti-U-Boat Operations when U-736 was forced to surface and was sunk - 6 Aug 44.
		2ND BAR TO DSC - for courage, outstanding efficiency and devotion to duty whilst serving in HMS Loch Killin in a successful engagement with an enemy submarine off Start Point - April 16th 1945.
	navyleag.customer.netspace.net.au /sd_05aw1.htm (107 words)

	31 July 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The German submarine U-333 is sunk in the North Atlantic west of the Scilly Isles, in position 49.39N, 07.28W, by depth charges from the British sloop HMS Starling and the frigate HMS Loch Killin.
		Cruisers HMS Diadem and Bellona along with destroyers HMCS Chaudiere, St Laurent and Kootenay departed Devonport on anti convoy sweep "Kinetic" no enemy contact.
		On the results of Action M, [an act of looting known as Einsatzstab Rosenberg which took over the homes of Jews deported from France], 69,619 Jewish dwellings of which 38,000 are in Paris, have been emptied of everything in daily or ornamental use.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1944/07/31.htm (1580 words)

	Naval Actions and losses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		HMS Hardy a V class destroyer leader of a JW convoy, torpedoed by a U-boat off Bear Island, sunk by RN.
		HMS Mahratta an M class destroyer sunk in the Barentz Sea by U-956.
		The German battleship Tirpitz was attacked by Fairey Barracuda torpedo-bombers from HMS Furious and HMS Victorious.
	www.wolftree.freeserve.co.uk /Naval/Naval_Actions_WW244Res.html (1997 words)

	Index \| NZETC
		Ajax, HMS: Battle of R. Plate, 45–59; damage to, 50–1; casualties, 50–1, 60; shadowing of Graf Spee, 55–8; destruction of Graf Spee, 61–3, 66–8; reception in Montevideo, 71; leaves for England, 71; operations off Syria, 111–12, 115
		Formidable, HMS: Attacks by aircraft from, 96, 251, 372, 380, 383–6, 388, 391, 397, 512, 515; Kamikaze attacks on, 385; New Zealanders serving in, 395–6, 507, 515–16
		Indefatigable, HMS: Operations, 369, 372, 391, 398, 399; Kamikaze attacks on, 376, 384; New Zealanders serving in, 370, 380, 388, 392, 395–7, 515–16, 521
	www.nzetc.org /tm/scholarly/tei-WH2Navy-_N131931.html (1487 words)

	Britain, Battle, Courbet, Foyle Bank, VC, Imogen, Brazen, Wren, Codrington, Delight, Channel, CE, E-boat, MTB, Hunt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		is destroyed to the west of the Scilly Islands by sloop "Starling" and frigate "Loch Killin" of the 2nd EG using the new Squid.
		Boarded by "Loch More", she is taken in tow but founders.
		Attacking a convoy off Start Point, she is sent to the bottom off Land's End by frigate "Loch Killin" of 17th EG.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsBritain.htm (6467 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Obituaries - Pat Sandeman - an appreciation
		As a young man in his twenties, Pat joined the TA and was actioned with the 57th Medium Regiment of the Royal Artillery.
		He was also part of a team that guarded a pair of ospreys at Loch Garten that returned to Scotland after a long absence.
		By this time Pat and Mary had moved from Edinburgh to Bridge of Allan and before long they had found a house in Killin in which they wanted they wanted to spend their final years.
	news.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=883032006 (873 words)

	Results Report
		It is interesting to note that their Commanding Officer, who did not survive the sinking, had claimed to have sunk, during the three patrols he did in the submarine, seventeen ships, totalling in all 99,961 tons.
		At this point HMS ONSLOW, Senior Officer of the convoy escort, passed the code word "Strike"—the order for the destroyers to form up on their divisional leaders for a torpedo attack.
		However, affairs on her west coast patrol were unusually quiet and the destroyer, relieved by HMS COCKADE on 2 June sailed for a courtesy visit to Tokyo where the ship's company enjoyed a lavish program of entertainment and hospitality.
	www.jproc.ca /iroquois/brief_history.html (13900 words)

	Scotland 2005
		Frey, Abby Cox, and Nick Speyer near the Falls of Doherty in Killin, which were featured in Hitchcock’s “39 Steps”.
		The first full day e= xposed us to the stratigraphy of the Dalradian rocks that were buried and metamorphosed during the Caledonian orogeny.
		The Scourie dyke intrusion of 2.2 billion years ago provides another important geologic= al marker, where later deformation in the dykes also indicates the presence of ancient shear zones in the now stable foreland.
	www.geo.lsa.umich.edu /~keken/Scotland_geology_trip0505.mht (1689 words)

	Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RANVR) Officers 1939-1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		CO HMS Loch Killin (frigate) (ship was under construction and commissioned on 12.04.1944)
		HMS Collingwood (RN training establishment, Fareham, nr Portsmouth)
		HMS King Alfred (RN training establishment, Hove, Sussex)
	jnhouterman.greatnow.com /RANVR_officers.html (337 words)

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