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Geschichte
This destroyer, (river-class) was built in 1943 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. in Newcastle-on-Tyne, Lancs.
Historische Notizen
This vessel was (as H.M.S. Express) one of the escorts to H.M.S. Repulse and H.M.S. Prince of Wales when this vessel was sunk by the Japanese in 1941. At the end of the Second World War this vessel was laid up in the ship boneyard at Bedwell Bay in Indian Arm BC Canada. Her hulk was used to form a breakwater at Royston, BC Canada.
Eigentümer & Kapitäne
In 1943-1946 she was in service with the Royal Canadian Navy.
In 1952 she was owned by Morris Greene, Victoria BC for scrapping.
Bewaffnung
4 × single QF 4.7-inch (120 mm) Mk IX guns; 2 × quadruple 0.5 in (12.7 mm) machine guns; 2 × quadruple 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes; 20 × depth charges, 1 rack and 2 throwers; 60 mines
Referenzen
- Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON
- Freeman, David J. (2000)
- MacFarlane, John M. (1990) Capital Iron: Scrap dealers in Lotusland. In Resolution (Newletter of the Maritime Museum of British Columbia)
- Sooke Region Museum (1989)
- en.wikipedia.org ↗
- J.J. Colledge and Ben Warlow (2010) Ships of the Royal Navy. Casemate Oxford UK
