HMCS St. Thomas
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HMCS St. Thomas was a Castle-class corvette of the Royal Canadian Navy. She served during the Second World War in the Battle of the Atlantic, taking part in the sinking of the German U-boat U-877 in 1944. Initially ordered by the British Royal Navy as Sandgate Castle, the ship was transferred to Canada before completion. Following the war, the corvette was converted for mercantile use and renamed Camosun III, then Chilcotin and Yukon Star in 1958 before being broken up in Washington in 1974.
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Name | Sandgate Castle |
Namesake | Sandgate Castle, Kent |
Ordered | 19 January 1943 |
Builder | Smiths Dock Company, Southbank-on-Tees |
Laid down | 23 June 1943 |
Launched | 28 December 1943 |
Fate | Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy |
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Name | St. Thomas |
Namesake | St. Thomas, Ontario |
Commissioned | 4 May 1944 |
Decommissioned | 22 November 1945 |
Identification | pennant number: K 488 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1944–45[1] |
Fate | Sold into mercantile service in 1946 |
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In service | 1946 |
Out of service | 1970 |
Fate | Broken up 1974 at Tacoma, Washington |
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Type | Castle-class corvette |
Displacement | 1,060 long tons (1,077 t) |
Length | 252 ft (77 m) |
Beam | 36 ft 8 in (11.18 m) |
Draught | 13 ft 6 in (4.11 m) |
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Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
Range | 6,200 nmi (11,500 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Complement | 120 |
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