HMCS Kamloops
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HMCS Kamloops was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She served primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as an ocean escort. She was named for Kamloops, British Columbia.
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HMCS Kamloops as a training ship, circa 1942. | |
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Name | Kamloops |
Namesake | Kamloops, British Columbia |
Ordered | 14 February 1940 |
Builder | Victoria Machinery Depot Co. Ltd., Victoria, British Columbia |
Laid down | 29 April 1940 |
Launched | 7 August 1940 |
Commissioned | 17 March 1941 |
Decommissioned | 27 June 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K176 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1941/43-45;[1] Gulf of St. Lawrence 1942[2] |
Fate | Sold on 19 October 1945 for scrapping |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette (original)[3] |
Displacement | 925 long tons (940 t; 1,036 short tons) |
Length | 205 ft (62.48 m)o/a |
Beam | 33 ft (10.06 m) |
Draught | 11.5 ft (3.51 m) |
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Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
Complement | 85 |
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