HMCS Asbestos
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HMCS Asbestos was a Flower-class corvette that served in 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 Asbestos, Quebec.
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HMCS Asbestos | |
History | |
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Canada | |
Name | Asbestos |
Namesake | Asbestos, Quebec |
Ordered | June 1942 |
Builder | Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City |
Laid down | 20 July 1943 |
Launched | 22 November 1943 |
Commissioned | 16 June 1944 |
Decommissioned | 8 July 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K358 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1944-45[1] |
Fate | Sold 1947. Wrecked off Cuba 13 February 1949. Wreck salvaged and scrapped in March 1949 at New Orleans. |
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 | single shaft, 2 × oil fired water tube boilers, 1 triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine, 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW) |
Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
Complement | 90 |
Sensors and processing systems | One Type 271 SW2C radar, one Type 144 sonar |
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