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History
HMCS MinasCanada
NameMinas
NamesakeMinas Basin
Ordered23 February 1940
BuilderBurrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd., North Vancouver
Laid down18 October 1940
Launched22 January 1941
Commissioned2 August 1941
Decommissioned6 October 1945
IdentificationPennant number: J165
Recommissioned15 March 1955
Decommissioned7 November 1955
Identificationpennant number: 189
Honours and
awards
Atlantic 1941–44, Normandy 1944[1]
FateSold for scrap 1958.
BadgeArgent, a pile barry wavy or and azure, and over all placed horizontally, a billet gules.[1]
General characteristics
Class and typeBangor-class minesweeper
Displacement672 long tons (683 t)
Length180 ft (54.9 m) oa
Beam28 ft 6 in (8.7 m)
Draught9 ft 9 in (3.0 m)
Propulsion2 Admiralty 3-drum water tube boilers, 2 shafts, vertical triple-expansion reciprocating engines, 2,400 ihp (1,790 kW)
Speed16.5 knots (31 km/h)
Complement83
Armament
  • 1 × QF 4 in (102 mm)/40 cal Mk IV gun
  • 1 × QF 2-pounder Mark VIII
  • 2 × QF 20 mm Oerlikon guns
  • 40 depth charges as escort

HMCS Minas was a Bangor-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She saw action in the Battle of the Atlantic and the Invasion of Normandy. She was named for Minas Basin.[2] After the war she was reactivated for a short period of time in 1955 before being sold for scrap.

  1. ^ a b Arbuckle, p. 67
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference mac172 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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