HMCS Messines
 Messines (right) and Ypres (center) under construction in Toronto in 1917 | |
| History | |
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  Canada
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| Name: | Messines |
| Namesake: | Battle of Messines |
| Builder: | Polson Iron Works Limited, Toronto, Ontario |
| Launched: | 16 June 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 13 November 1917 |
| Decommissioned: | 1920 |
| Renamed: | Re-designated Lightship No. 3 |
| Fate: | Scrapped, 1962 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Battle class naval trawler |
| Displacement: | 320 long tons (330 t) |
| Length: | 130 ft (40 m) |
| Beam: | 23 ft 6 in (7.16 m) |
| Draught: | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
| Speed: | 10 knots (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
| Armament: | 1 × QF 12-pounder (76-mm) gun |
HMCS Messines was one of twelve Battle class naval trawlers used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). Named after the Battle of Messines, she was built by Polson Iron Works, in Toronto, Ontario. Commissioned on 13 November 1917, she was handed over to the Department of Marine and Fisheries following her 1920 decommissioning. Converted to a lightship, like sister ships HMCS St. Eloi, HMCS St. Julien, and HMCS Vimy, Messines was designated Lightship No. 3, and was ultimately scrapped in 1962.[1][2]
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), 24. ISBN 0-920277-91-8
- ↑ Charles D. Maginley and Bernard Collin, The Ships of Canada's Marine Services, St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing, 2001, 113. ISBN 1-55125-070-5
External links
- Battle Class trawlers
- Canadian Navy Heritage Project: Ship Technical Information
- Canadian Navy Heritage Project: Photo Archive
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