HMCS Beauharnois (K540)

HMCS Beauharnois
History
Canada
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
Israel
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	single shaft 2 × water tube boilers 1 × 4-cylinder triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW)
Speed	16 knots (29.6 km/h)
Range	3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h)
Complement	90
Sensors and processing systems	1 × Type 271 SW2C radar 1 × Type 144 sonar
Armament	1 × 4 inch BL Mk.IX single gun 1 × 2-pdr. Mk.VIII single "pom-pom" AA gun 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon single 1 × Hedgehog A/S mortar 4 × Mk.II depth charge throwers 2 depth charge rails with 70 depth charges

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.