![]() HMCS Drummondville
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Name | Drummondville |
Namesake | Drummondville, Quebec |
Builder | Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal |
Laid down | 1 October 1941 |
Launched | 21 May 1941 |
Commissioned | 30 October 1941 |
Decommissioned | 29 October 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: J253 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1942–45,[1] Gulf of St. Lawrence 1942[2] |
Fate | Sold for mercantile use. Sank 1963. |
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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HMCS Drummondville was a Bangor-class minesweeper that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She saw action primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. Entering service in 1941, she was sold for mercantile service after the war. In 1963, as Fort Albany, the ship was involved in a collision near Sorel, Quebec and sank. The ship was later raised and broken up.
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