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 HMCS Kokanee
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| History | |
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 Canada | |
| Name | Kokanee |
| Namesake | Kokanee Lake |
| Ordered | October 1941 |
| Builder | Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt |
| Laid down | 25 August 1943 |
| Launched | 27 November 1943 |
| Commissioned | 6 June 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 21 December 1945 |
| Identification | Pennant number: K419 |
| Honours and awards | Atlantic 1944–45,[1] Gulf of St. Lawrence 1944[2] |
| Fate | Sold to India, 1948 |
 India | |
| Name | Bengal |
| Acquired | purchased 1948 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1965 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | River-class frigate |
| Displacement | 1,445 tonnes (empty), 2,216 tonnes (full load) |
| Length | 301.5 ft (91.9 m) |
| Beam | 37 ft (11 m) |
| Draught | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 shafts, VTE, 2 boilers, 2 reciprocating main engines; 5,500 hp (4,100 kW) |
| Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h) |
| Range | 7,200 nautical miles (13,300 km)s at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Endurance | 21.725 days |
| Complement | 141 |
| Sensors and processing systems | Type 271 or SU type radar |
| Electronic warfare & decoys | HF/DF (High Frequency Direction Finder) |
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HMCS Kokanee was a River-class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She saw action primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. After the war she was sold to India and converted into a pilot vessel.
Kokanee was ordered in October 1941 as part of the 1942–43 building program.[3][4] Named after Kokanee Lake in southeastern British Columbia, she was laid down on 25 August 1943 at Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt and launched on 27 November 1943.[4] She was commissioned into the RCN with pennant number K419 on 6 June 1944 at the Esquimalt naval base. She departed for the Atlantic coast, arriving at HMC Dockyard in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 24 July 1944 and was tasked to Bermuda in August 1944 to work up her new crew.[3]
- ^ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- ^ "Royal Canadian Warships - The Battle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence - Second World War". Veterans Affairs Canada. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2014.
- ^ a b Macpherson, Ken; Burgess, John (1981). The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910–1981 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships. Toronto: Collins. ISBN 0-00-216856-1.
- ^ a b "HMCS Kokanee (K 419)". uboat.net. Retrieved 22 March 2014.