HMCS Long Branch
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For other ships with the same name, see HMS Candytuft.
HMCS Long Branch (sometimes spelled as Longbranch) was a modified Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She was used primarily as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was laid down as HMS Candytuft but was transferred to the RCN on 5 January 1944 before completion.[2] She was named for Long Branch, Ontario, a village that was eventually amalgamated into Toronto, Ontario.
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HMCS Long Branch | |
History | |
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Canada | |
Name | Long Branch |
Namesake | Long Branch, Ontario |
Ordered | 25 July 1942 |
Builder | A. & J. Inglis Ltd., Glasgow |
Laid down | 27 February 1943 |
Launched | 28 September 1943 |
Commissioned | 5 January 1944 |
Decommissioned | 17 June 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K487 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1944-45[1] |
Fate | Sold in 1947 as mercantile Rexton Kent II. Scuttled off Canada's Atlantic coast in 1966. |
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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