HMCS Cape Scott (ARE 101)
| History | |
|---|---|
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | Beachy Head |
| Namesake: | Beachy Head, East Sussex |
| Builder: | Burrard Dry Dock, Vancouver |
| Laid down: | 8 June 1944 |
| Launched: | 27 September 1944 |
| In service: | 1944 |
| Out of service: | 1952 |
| Fate: |
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 Netherlands
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| Name: | Vulkaan |
| Acquired: | 1947 |
| In service: | 1947 |
| Out of service: | 1950 |
| Fate: | Returned to UK, 1950 |
 Canada
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| Name: | Cape Scott |
| Namesake: | Cape Scott |
| Acquired: | 1952 |
| Commissioned: | 28 January 1959 |
| Decommissioned: | 1 July 1970 |
| Out of service: | 1975 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1978 |
| Notes: | Argent, a cross azure charged in the center with a thistle or and interlaced with a gear-wheel gules.[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Cape-class maintenance ship |
| Displacement: | 8,580 long tons (8,718 t) |
| Length: | 134.7 m (441 ft 11 in) |
| Beam: | 17.4 m (57 ft 1 in) |
| Draught: | 6.1 m (20 ft) |
| Propulsion: | Oil-fired triple expansion steam engines, 2 boilers, 1 shaft, 2,500 hp (1,864 kW) |
| Speed: | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement: | 270 |
| Aircraft carried: | handling Sikorsky H04-S |
| Aviation facilities: | helicopter pad |
HMCS Cape Scott (ARE 101) was a Cape-class maintenance ship. She was built for the Royal Navy as HMS Beachy Head in 1944. She was loaned to the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1947 as HNLMS Vulkaan and returned to the Royal Navy in 1950. She was sold to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1952 and served until 1975, used as an alongside repair depot after decommissioning.
References
Citations
- ↑ Arbuckle, p. 20
Sources
- Arbuckle, J. Graeme (1987). Badges of the Canadian Navy. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Nimbus Publishing. ISBN 0-920852-49-1.
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
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