HMCS Rimouski
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HMCS Rimouski was a Royal Canadian Navy Flower-class corvette which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named after Rimouski, Quebec.
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HMCS Rimouski, circa 1944 – 1945 | |
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Name | Rimouski |
Namesake | Rimouski, Quebec |
Ordered | 22 January 1940 |
Builder | Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon |
Laid down | 12 July 1940 |
Launched | 3 October 1940 |
Commissioned | 26 April 1941 |
Decommissioned | 24 July 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K121 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1942-45, English Channel 1944-45, Normandy 1944[1] |
Fate | Scrapped in December 1950 in Canada. |
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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