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HMCS Belleville at commissioning
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HMCS BellevilleCanada
NameHMCS Belleville
NamesakeBelleville, Ontario
OrderedJune 1942
BuilderKingston Shipbuilding Co., Kingston
Laid down21 January 1944
Launched17 June 1944
Commissioned19 October 1944
Decommissioned5 July 1945
IdentificationPennant number: K332
Honours and
awards
Atlantic 1945[1]
FateSold to the Dominican Republic in 1947
HMCS BellevilleDominican Republic
NameJuan Bautista Cambiaso
NamesakeAdmiral Juan Bautista Cambiaso
Commissioned1947
Decommissioned1972
FateScrapped 1972
General characteristics
Class and typeModified Flower-class corvette
Displacement1,015 long tons (1,031 t; 1,137 short tons)
Length208 ft (63.4 m)o/a
Beam33 ft (10.1 m)
Draught11 ft (3.35 m)
Propulsion
  • single shaft
  • 2 × water tube boilers
  • 1 × 4-cylinder triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine
  • 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW)
Speed16 knots (29.6 km/h)
Range3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h)
Complement90
Sensors and
processing systems
  • 1 × Type 271 SW2C radar
  • 1 × Type 144 sonar
Armament
  • 1 × 4 inch BL Mk.IX single gun
  • 1 × 2-pdr. Mk.VIII single "pom-pom" AA gun
  • 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon single
  • 1 × Hedgehog A/S mortar
  • 4 × Mk.II depth charge throwers
  • 2 depth charge rails with 70 depth charges

HMCS Belleville was a modified Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for Belleville, Ontario. After the war she was sold to the Dominican Navy and served with them until 1972.

  1. ^ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 28 September 2013.

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