Historia
This corvette, flower class (1940-41 revised building programme) was built in 1941 by Geo. T. Davie & Sons Ltd. in Lauzon, QC.
Notas históricas
This vessel was launched on November 18, 1941. This vessel served in Operations Torch and Neptune. This vessel was the only Canadian corvette to participate in the 6 June D-Day invasion of Normandy, escorting the second wave of American infantry which landed at around 11 am on Omaha Beach, then assigned as picket ship for the heavy cruiser USS Augusta which was acting as General Omar Bradley's command ship. This vessel was featured in the 1942 Hollywood film 'Corvette K-225' as the fictional HMCS Donnacona. This vessel carried 230 tons of fuel and could reach 16 knots. Her endurance was 3450nm at 12 knots. This vessel was broken up at Hamilton ON in 1949.
Propietarios y capitanes
In 1941-1945 she was owned by the Royal Canadian Navy.
Armamento
1-4" 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).
Referencias
- Macpherson, Ken and Marc Milner (1993)
- Macpherson, Ken and John Burgess (1981)
- Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON
- Freeman, David J. (2000)
- en.wikipedia.org ↗
