HMCS Red Deer
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HMCS Red Deer was a Bangor-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. The minesweeper saw action in the Battle of the Atlantic and the Battle of the St. Lawrence. She was named for Red Deer, Alberta. After the war the vessel was briefly reacquired by the Royal Canadian Navy, but was not recommissioned and was sold for scrap and broken up in 1959.
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Name | Red Deer |
Namesake | City of Red Deer |
Builder | Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal |
Laid down | 1 January 1941 |
Launched | 5 October 1941 |
Commissioned | 24 November 1941 |
Decommissioned | 30 October 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: J255; 196 (1952) |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1942–45,[1] Gulf of St. Lawrence 1942, 1944[2] |
Fate | Sold for scrap 1959 |
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 |
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