HMCS Moose Jaw
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HMCS Moose Jaw was a Royal Canadian Navy Flower-class corvette which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. Together with HMCS Chambly, she achieved the RCN's first U-boat kill of the war. She was named after Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
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HMCS Moose Jaw, circa 1941 | |
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Canada | |
Name | Moose Jaw |
Namesake | Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan |
Ordered | 1 February 1940 |
Builder | Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood |
Laid down | 12 August 1940 |
Launched | 9 April 1941 |
Commissioned | 19 June 1941 |
Decommissioned | 8 July 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K164 |
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Fate | Scrapped in September 1949 in Canada. |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette[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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