![]() HMCS Owen Sound
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Name | HMCS Owen Sound |
Namesake | Owen Sound, Ontario |
Ordered | 2 January 1942 |
Builder | Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood |
Laid down | 11 November 1942 |
Launched | 15 June 1943 |
Commissioned | 17 November 1943 |
Decommissioned | 19 July 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K340 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1944–45[1] |
Fate | Sold for mercantile use 1946, scrapped 1974 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette (modified) |
Displacement | 1,015 long tons (1,031 t; 1,137 short tons) |
Length | 208 ft (63.40 m)o/a |
Beam | 33 ft (10.06 m) |
Draught | 11 ft (3.35 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
Range | 7,400 nautical miles (13,705 km) at 10 knots (18.5 km/h) |
Complement | 90 |
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HMCS Owen Sound was a modified Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for Owen Sound, Ontario.
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