HMCS Camrose
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HMCS Camrose was a Royal Canadian Navy Flower-class corvette which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She was named for Camrose, Alberta.
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HMCS Camrose, circa November 1943. | |
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Canada | |
Name | Camrose |
Namesake | Camrose, Alberta |
Ordered | 22 January 1940 |
Builder | Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel |
Laid down | 17 February 1940 |
Launched | 16 November 1940 |
Commissioned | 30 June 1941 |
Decommissioned | 22 July 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K154 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1941-45, Normandy 1944, North Sea 1944, Gulf of St. Lawrence 1944, English Channel 1945[1] |
Fate | Scrapped in Hamilton, Ontario |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette |
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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