Battle-class naval trawler of the Royal Canadian Navy
Messines (right) and Ypres (center) under construction in Toronto in 1917
History
Canada
Name
Messines
Namesake
Battle of Messines
Ordered
2 February 1916
Builder
Polson Iron Works Limited, Toronto
Launched
16 June 1917
Commissioned
13 November 1917
Decommissioned
1920
Renamed
Re-designated Lightship No. 3 1920
Fate
Scrapped, 1962
General characteristics
Class and type
Battle-class naval trawler
Displacement
320 long tons (330 t)
Length
130 ft (40 m)
Beam
23 ft 5 in (7.14 m)
Draught
13 ft 5 in (4.09 m)
Propulsion
1 x triple expansion, 480 ihp (360 kW)
Speed
10 knots (12 mph; 19 km/h)
Armament
1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun
HMCS Messines was one of twelve Battle-class naval trawlers constructed for and used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) during the First World War. Following the war the ship was transferred to the Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries and converted into a lightvessel. Re-designated Lightship No. 3, the vessel was sold for scrap and broken up in 1962.
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