HMCS Chignecto (J160)

For other ships of the same name, see HMCS Chignecto.
History
Canada
Name: Chignecto
Namesake: Chignecto Bay
Ordered: 23 February 1940
Builder: North Van Ship Repair, Lonsdale Quay, North Vancouver
Laid down: 9 November 1940
Launched: 12 December 1940
Commissioned: 31 October 1941
Decommissioned: 3 November 1945
Identification: pennant number:J160
Fate: Sold to the Union Steamship Co. of British Columbia in 1946
Badge: Blazon Gules, a pile azure fimbriated argent charged with a sprig of bulrush or. Ship's colors are blue and gold.
General characteristics
Class and type: Bangor-class minesweeper
Displacement: 672 tons
Length: 180 ft (54.9 m)
Beam: 28.5 ft (8.7 m)
Draught: 8 ft (2.4 m)
Propulsion: Single shaft, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 triple expansion steam engines, 2,400 ihp.
Speed: 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph)
Complement: 83 (6 Officers, 77 Ratings)
Armament:
  • 1 × QF 12-pounder (3 inch (76 mm)) gun
  • 1 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) guns
  • 2 × QF 20 mm Oerlikon guns
  • 2 × Mk.II DC throwers, 4 × DC rails, 40 depth charges

HMCS Chignecto was a Bangor-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She only saw service on the west coast of Canada during the war. She was named for Chignecto Bay.

Chignecto was ordered 23 February 1940 as part of the 1939-1940 building programme.[1][2] She was laid down on 9 November 1940 by North Van Ship Repair at North Vancouver and launched 12 December later that year.[1] She was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on 31 October 1941.[3]

Service history

Following her commissioning, Chignecto was assigned to Esquimalt Force for local patrol and minesweeping duties. She spent the entire war on the west coast alternating between service with Esquimalt Force and Prince Rupert Force. She was paid off from the Royal Canadian Navy on 3 November 1945.[3]

In 1946 Chignecto was sold to the Union Steamship Co. of British Columbia along with her sisters HMCS Miramichi and HMCS Courtenay.[2] She was be converted to a coastal merchant ship however the conversion was not proceeded with.[3] She was eventually scrapped at the Point Hope Shipyard in Victoria, British Columbia in 1957.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "HMCS Chignecto (J160)". uboat.net. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  2. 1 2 McClearn, Sandy (2007). "Bangor Class". hazegray.org. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 Macpherson, Ken; Burgess, John (1981). The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910-1981 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships. Toronto: Collins. ISBN 0-00216-856-1.


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