HMCS Kitchener (K225)
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For other ships with the same name, see HMCS Kitchener.
HMCS Kitchener was a Royal Canadian Navy revised Flower-class corvette which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Kitchener, Ontario. The vessel was originally named HMCS Vancouver but was renamed in November 1941 before the ship was launched.[2]
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Name | Kitchener |
Namesake | Kitchener, Ontario |
Builder | Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon |
Laid down | 28 February 1941 |
Launched | 18 November 1941 |
Commissioned | 28 June 1942 |
Decommissioned | 11 July 1945 |
Renamed | from HMCS Vancouver before launch. |
Refit | Completed 28 January 1944, Liverpool, Nova Scotia. |
Identification | Pennant number: K225 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1942-43, Gulf of St. Lawrence 1942, English Channel 1944-45, Normandy 1944[1] |
Fate | Scrapped in 1949, Hamilton, Ontario |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette (Revised) |
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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