HMCS La Hulloise
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HMCS La Hulloise was a River-class frigate that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War and again as a training ship and Prestonian-class frigate from 1957–1965. She was named for Hull, Quebec, but due to possible confusion with USS Hull, her name was altered.[4]
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HMCS La Hulloise entering Gladstone Dock, Liverpool. | |
History | |
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Canada | |
Name | La Hulloise |
Namesake | Hull, Quebec |
Ordered | October 1941 |
Builder | Canadian Vickers Ltd. Montreal, Quebec |
Laid down | 10 August 1943 |
Launched | 29 October 1943 |
Commissioned | 20 May 1944 |
Decommissioned | 6 December 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K 668 |
Recommissioned | 9 October 1957 |
Decommissioned | 16 July 1965 |
Reclassified | Prestonian-class frigate 1957 |
Identification | pennant number: FFE 305 |
Motto | "Soyons coeur franc" (Let us be true of heart)[1] |
Honours and awards | |
Fate | Scrapped 1966 |
Badge | Barry wavy of twelve, argent and azure, a lozenge of the second fimbriated or, charged with three maple leaves vert, edged and veined argent, conjoined to a single stem of the last, the stem enfiled with a coronet or.[3] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | River-class frigate |
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Length | |
Beam | 36.5 ft (11.13 m) |
Draught | 9 ft (2.74 m); 13 ft (3.96 m) (deep load) |
Propulsion | 2 x Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) |
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Range | 646 long tons (656 t; 724 short tons) oil fuel; 7,500 nautical miles (13,890 km) at 15 knots (27.8 km/h) |
Complement | 157 |
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La Hulloise was ordered in October 1941 as part of the 1942–1943 River-class building program.[4][5] She was laid down on 10 August 1943 by Canadian Vickers Ltd. at Montreal, Quebec and launched 29 October 1943.[5] She was commissioned 20 May 1944 at Montreal with the pennant K 668.[4][5]