Ship Details

Agassiz (H.M.C.S.)

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Registry #1 K.129 (RCN) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1940 Agassiz (H.M.C.S.) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1940 Place North Vancouver Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 205' x 33' x 13.5'
Builder Burrard Drydock Co. Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement 950
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Corvette, (1939-40 Canadian Building Programme)
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 2750ihp steam reciprocating engine with a 4-cylinder Triple expansion engine with 2 Scotch marine boilers. Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # K.129 Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1940-1945 she was owned by the Royal Canadian Navy.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1946-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel carried 230 tons of fuel and could reach 16 knots. Her endurance was 3450 nm at 12 knots. This vessel was armed with one 4” BL Mk.IX, two twin .5” machine guns and two twin .303” machine guns, two (later four) depth charge throwers and two rails (later four) carrying 40 depth charges (later 70). This vessel carried a complement of 7 officers and 85-90 other ranks. This vessel was launched on 15/08/1940. This vessel was modernized and the forecastle was extended at New York 1943-44. This vessel was broken up at Moncton NB in 1946.
 
References
Macpherson, Ken and John Burgess (1981); Macpherson, Ken and Marc Milner (1993); Freeman, David J. (2000);
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