![]() Officers on the open bridge of HMCS Trillium
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History | |
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Name | Trillium |
Namesake | flowering plant genus Trillium |
Ordered | 20 January 1940 |
Builder | Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal |
Laid down | 20 February 1940 |
Launched | 26 June 1940 |
Commissioned | 31 October 1940 |
Out of service | loaned to Royal Canadian Navy 15 May 1941 |
Identification | Pennant number: K172 |
Fate | Returned from RCN June 1945. Sold for civilian use, scrapped 1971 |
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Name | Trillium |
Commissioned | 15 May 1941 |
Out of service | Returned to the Royal Navy 27 June 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K172 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1940-45[1] |
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) |
Propulsion |
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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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Armament |
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HMCS Trillium was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She served mainly as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was one of ten corvettes loaned to the Canadian navy by the Royal Navy and the only one which remained an ocean escort throughout the war. She was named after the flowering plant genus Trillium, which includes wakerobin, tri flower, and birthroot.
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