HMCS Cobalt
Royal Canadian Navy ship that served during the Second World War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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HMCS Cobalt was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Canadian Navy which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She served primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Cobalt, Ontario.
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HMCS Cobalt at Liverpool, Nova Scotia, where she underwent her foc'sle extension refit in 1944. | |
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Name | Cobalt |
Namesake | Cobalt, Ontario |
Ordered | 1 February 1940 |
Builder | Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. Port Arthur |
Laid down | 1 April 1940 |
Launched | 17 August 1940 |
Commissioned | 25 November 1940 |
Decommissioned | 17 June 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K124 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic, 1941 – 45.[1] |
Fate | Sold for mercantile purposes; broken up 1966 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette (original)[2] |
Displacement | 925 long tons (940 t; 1,036 short tons) |
Length | 205 ft (62.48 m)o/a |
Beam | 33 ft (10.06 m) |
Draught | 11.5 ft (3.51 m) |
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Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
Complement | 85 |
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