HMCS Constance
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HMCS Constance was a commissioned minesweeper of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) during the First World War. Originally built as a fisheries cruiser for the Department of Marine and Fisheries, upon completion she was transferred to the Department of Customs, and was used by the Customs Preventive Service. Constance spent the entire war as a patrol and examination vessel on the East Coast of Canada. Following the war, the vessel was sold in 1924.
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Constance, possibly while in service as CGS Constance prior to the First World War. | |
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Name | Constance |
Builder | Polson Iron Works, Owen Sound |
Launched | 1891 |
Commissioned | 1914, as HMCS Constance |
Decommissioned | 1919 |
Fate | Sold in 1924 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Patrol vessel |
Displacement | 185 long tons (188 t) |
Length | 115 ft 0 in (35.1 m) |
Beam | 19 ft 6 in (5.9 m) |
Draught | 11 ft 2 in (3.4 m) |
Propulsion | 1 × screw, compound steam engine, 50 nhp |
Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h) |
Complement | 23 |
Armament | 3 × machine guns |
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