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CANADIAN NAVY - CANADA

CONVERTED MERCHANT VESSELS

auxiliary minesweepers of WWII

100 - 1000 BRT:

Ocean Eagle (1919, 420, 1941 - 1944), Reo II (1931, 129, 1941 - 1945), Ross Norman (1937, 297, 1941 - 1944), Spray (1907, 118, 1941 - 1945), Standard Coaster (1927, 150, 5.1941 - 1944)

Project history: requisitioned merchant vessels used as minesweepers.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service:  Format of date including day/month/year means loss of the vessel. Format of date containing month/year means return to owner or conversion to miscellaneous vessel. There were many coasters, tugs and other vessels used as minesweepers with tonnage less than 100 BRT.

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