![]() HMCS Beauharnois
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Name | HMCS Beauharnois |
Namesake | Beauharnois, Quebec |
Ordered | June 1942 |
Builder | Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City |
Laid down | 8 November 1943 |
Launched | 11 May 1944 |
Commissioned | 25 September 1944 |
Decommissioned | 12 July 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K540 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1944-45[1] |
Fate | Sold to Mossad LeAliyah Bet in 1946 |
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Name | INS Wedgwood |
Namesake | Josiah Wedgwood |
Commissioned | 9 September 1948 |
Decommissioned | 1954 |
Identification | K-18 |
Fate | Scrapped 1956 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Modified Flower-class corvette |
Displacement | 1,015 long tons (1,031 t; 1,137 short tons) |
Length | 208 ft (63.4 m)o/a |
Beam | 33 ft (10.1 m) |
Draught | 11 ft (3.35 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 | 90 |
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HMCS Beauharnois was a modified Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War, primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. After the war it was sold to a Jewish resettlement movement and eventually made its way into the nascent Israeli Navy.
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