HMCS Brantford
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HMCS Brantford was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. The corvette was named for Brantford, Ontario. She served primarily as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic until 1944 when the vessel became a training ship attached to HMCS Cornwallis. Following the war, the ship was converted into a whaling ship and renamed Olympic Arrow in 1950. In 1956, the ship was sold and renamed Otori Maru No.14 and again in 1961 as Kyo Maru No.21. In 1972, the vessel was converted to a tugboat and renamed Daito Maru No.71. The vessel was broken up for scrap in 1976.
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HMCS Brantford | |
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Canada | |
Name | Brantford |
Namesake | Brantford, Ontario |
Builder | Midland Shipyards Ltd., Midland |
Laid down | 24 February 1941 |
Launched | 6 September 1941 |
Commissioned | 15 May 1942 |
Decommissioned | 17 August 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K218 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1942–45, Gulf of St. Lawrence 1942 |
Fate | Sold for mercantile conversion, scrapped 1976 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette |
Displacement | 950 long tons (970 t) |
Length | 205 ft 1 in (62.51 m) o/a |
Beam | 33 ft 1 in (10.08 m) |
Draught | 13 ft 5 in (4.09 m) |
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Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Range | 3,450 nmi (6,390 km; 3,970 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 47 |
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