HMCS Sudbury
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HMCS Sudbury was a Flower-class corvette that served the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She served primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for Sudbury, Ontario.
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HMCS Sudbury at sea, circa 1944-1945. This photograph was taken after the May 1944 completion of the refit that included a forecastle extension. | |
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Name | Sudbury |
Namesake | Sudbury, Ontario |
Ordered | 7 February 1940 |
Builder | Kingston Shipbuilding Ltd., Kingston |
Laid down | 25 January 1941 |
Launched | 31 May 1941 |
Commissioned | 15 October 1941 |
Decommissioned | 28 August 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K162 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1941-44[1] |
Fate | Sold in 1949 as mercantile Sudbury. Scrapped in 1967. |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette (original)[2] |
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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