HMCS Stratford
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HMCS Stratford 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. In March 1945 Stratford collided with another ship and was rendered unusable. The minesweeper was broken up in 1946. She was named after the city of Stratford, Ontario.
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Name | Stratford |
Namesake | City of Stratford |
Builder | Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon[lower-alpha 1] |
Laid down | 29 October 1941 |
Launched | 4 February 1942 |
Commissioned | 29 August 1942 |
Decommissioned | 1 April 1946 |
Identification | Pennant number: J310 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1942–44,[1] Gulf of St. Lawrence 1942, 1944[2] |
Fate | Sold for scrap 1946 |
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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