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CANADIAN NAVY - CANADA

MINE WARFARE SHIPS

FUNDY armed trawlers (1938)

Fundy 1938

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Comox J64   Burrard, Vancouver 2.1938 9.8.1938 11.1938 to China 1946 (宋明 [Sung Ming])
Fundy J68   Collingwood 1.1938 18.6.1938 9.1938 sold 1947
Gaspé J94   Morton, Quebec City 1.1938 12.8.1938 10.1938 to China 1947 (宋礼 [Sung Li])
Nootka, 1944- Nanoose J35   Canadian Yarrow, Esquimalt 2.1938 26.9.1938 12.1938 to China 1947 (宋陵 [Sung Ling])

Displacement standard, t

521 - 560

Displacement full, t

725 - 775

Length, m

48.9 - 50.0

Breadth, m

8.25 - 8.43

Draught, m

3.23 - 3.40 deep load

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

850 - 950

Max speed, kts

12.5 - 13

Fuel, t

coal 180 - 196

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 102/40 QF Mk IV, 4 x 1 - 7.7/87, 2 DCT, 2 DCR (4), mechanical minesweeping gear

Complement

33

Indian-built: 48

Project history: Minesweeping trawlers.

Modernizations: 1942 - 1944, all: - 4 x 1 - 7.7/87; + (1 - 3) x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, DC stowage rose up to 25.

Naval service: No significant events.

Comox

 

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