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HMCS Moose Jaw, circa 1941
History
HMCS Moose JawCanada
NameMoose Jaw
NamesakeMoose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Ordered1 February 1940
BuilderCollingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood
Laid down12 August 1940
Launched9 April 1941
Commissioned19 June 1941
Decommissioned8 July 1945
IdentificationPennant number: K164
Honours and
awards
  • Atlantic 1941-43
  • English Channel 1944-45
  • Normandy 1944[1]
FateScrapped in September 1949 in Canada.
General characteristics
Class and typeFlower-class corvette[2]
Displacement925 long tons (940 t; 1,036 short tons)
Length205 ft (62.48 m) o/a
Beam33 ft (10.06 m)
Draught11.5 ft (3.51 m)
Propulsion
  • single shaft
  • 2 × fire tube Scotch boilers
  • 1 × 4-cycle 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)
Complement85
Sensors and
processing systems
  • 1 × SW1C or 2C radar
  • 1 × Type 123A or Type 127DV sonar
Armament
  • 1 × BL 4 in (100 mm) Mk.IX gun
  • 2 × .50 cal. machine gun (twin)
  • 2 × Lewis .303 cal machine gun (twin)
  • 2 × Mk.II depth charge throwers
  • 2 × depth charge rails with 40 depth charges

HMCS Moose Jaw was a Royal Canadian Navy Flower-class corvette which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. Together with HMCS Chambly, she achieved the RCN's first U-boat kill of the war. She was named after Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.

  1. ^ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  2. ^ Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. p. 184. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.

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