HMCS Drumheller
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HMCS Drumheller was a Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She served in several theatres, including the Battle of the Atlantic as an ocean escort. She was named for Drumheller, Alberta.
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Name | Drumheller |
Namesake | Drumheller, Alberta |
Ordered | 1 February 1940 |
Builder | Collingwood Shipyards Ltd. Collingwood |
Laid down | 4 December 1940 |
Launched | 5 July 1941 |
Commissioned | 13 September 1941 |
Decommissioned | 11 July 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K167 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1941-45; Normandy 1944; English Channel 1944-45;[1] |
Fate | Scrapped 1949 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette (original)[2] |
Displacement | 925 long tons (940 t; 1,036 short tons) |
Length | 205 ft (62.48 m)o/a |
Beam | 33 ft (10.06 m) |
Draught | 11.5 ft (3.51 m) |
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Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
Complement | 85 |
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