HMS Guysborough information

	Guysborough underway in coastal waters
History
United Kingdom
Name	Guysborough
Ordered	28 November 1940
Builder	North Van Ship Repair, North Vancouver
Laid down	28 May 1941
Launched	21 July 1941
Fate	Loaned to Royal Canadian Navy 1942
Canada
Name	Guysborough
Namesake	Guysborough, Nova Scotia
Commissioned	22 April 1942
Out of service	17 March 1945
Honours and; awards	Atlantic 1943–44, Normandy 1944
Fate	Sunk 17 March 1945
General characteristics
Class and type	Bangor-class minesweeper
Displacement	672 long tons (683 t)
Length	180 ft (54.9 m) oa
Beam	28 ft 6 in (8.7 m)
Draught	9 ft 9 in (3.0 m)
Propulsion	2 Admiralty 3-drum water tube boilers, 2 shafts, vertical triple-expansion reciprocating engines, 2,400 ihp (1,790 kW)
Speed	16.5 knots (31 km/h)
Complement	83
Armament	1 × 12-pounder (3 in (76 mm)) 12 cwt HA gun; 2 × QF 20 mm Oerlikon guns; 40 depth charges as escort;

HMS Guysborough was a VTE-engined Bangor-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy. Before commissioning she was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on loan. She saw action in the Battle of the Atlantic and the Invasion of Normandy. She was torpedoed by the German submarine U-868 in 1945 while returning to the United Kingdom.

^ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 1 June 2014.

[Britain-1] "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 1 June 2014.

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History
Guysborough underway in coastal waters
United Kingdom
Name	Guysborough
Ordered	28 November 1940
Builder	North Van Ship Repair, North Vancouver
Laid down	28 May 1941
Launched	21 July 1941
Fate	Loaned to Royal Canadian Navy 1942
Canada
Name	Guysborough
Namesake	Guysborough, Nova Scotia
Commissioned	22 April 1942
Out of service	17 March 1945
Honours and awards	Atlantic 1943–44, Normandy 1944^[1]
Fate	Sunk 17 March 1945
General characteristics
Class and type	Bangor-class minesweeper
Displacement	672 long tons (683 t)
Length	180 ft (54.9 m) oa
Beam	28 ft 6 in (8.7 m)
Draught	9 ft 9 in (3.0 m)
Propulsion	2 Admiralty 3-drum water tube boilers, 2 shafts, vertical triple-expansion reciprocating engines, 2,400 ihp (1,790 kW)
Speed	16.5 knots (31 km/h)
Complement	83
Armament	1 × 12-pounder (3 in (76 mm)) 12 cwt HA gun 2 × QF 20 mm Oerlikon guns 40 depth charges as escort