HMCS Givenchy
 HMCS Givenchy | |
| History | |
|---|---|
  Canada
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| Name: | Givenchy |
| Namesake: | Givenchy-en-Gohelle |
| Builder: | Canadian Vickers, Montreal, Quebec |
| Launched: | 15 September 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 22 June 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 12 August 1919 |
| Commissioned: | 25 June 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 7 December 1943 |
| Fate: | Sold 19 September 1946, possibly broken up 1953 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Battle-class Naval trawler |
| Displacement: | 357 long tons (363 t) |
| Length: | 130 ft (40 m) |
| Beam: | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Draught: | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | Single screw steam triple expansion, 480 ihp (360 kW) |
| Speed: | 10 knots (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
| Armament: | 1 × 12-pounder gun |
HMCS Givenchy was one of twelve Battle class naval trawlers used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). Built at Montreal by Canadian Vickers, Givenchy was commissioned in June 1918 and paid off at Esquimalt, British Columbia in August 1919. Transferred to the Department of Marine and Fisheries, she served as a fisheries protection vessel before being returned to the RCN in April 1939. Used mainly as an accommodation ship, Givenchy was in commission between June 1940 and December 1943. After being sold in September 1946, Givenchy was probably broken up in the United States in 1953.[1]
References
- ↑ Ken Macpherson and John Burgess, The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910-1993 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships, (St. Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell Pub., 1994), 23. ISBN 0-920277-91-8
External links
- Battle Class trawlers
- Canadian Navy Heritage Project: Ship Technical Information
- Canadian Navy Heritage Project: Photo Archive
Further reading
- Charles D. Maginley and Bernard Collin, The Ships of Canada's Marine Services, St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing, 2001, p. 91. ISBN 1-55125-070-5
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