HMCS Woodstock
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HMCS Woodstock was a Royal Canadian Navy revised Flower-class corvette that took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Woodstock, Ontario.
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HMCS Woodstock | |
History | |
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Canada | |
Name | Woodstock |
Namesake | Woodstock, Ontario |
Builder | Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood |
Laid down | 23 May 1941 |
Launched | 10 December 1941 |
Commissioned | 1 May 1942 |
Decommissioned | 27 January 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K238 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1942–1944, North Africa 1942-43, Normandy 1944, English Channel 1944,[1] Gulf of St. Lawrence 1944 [2] |
Fate | Sold for mercantile use, scrapped 1975 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette (Revised) |
Displacement | 925 long tons (940 t) |
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 (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 85 |
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