HMCS Lanark
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HMCS Lanark was a River-class frigate that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War and again from 1956–1965 as a Prestonian-class frigate. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for Lanark, Ontario.
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HMCS Lanark | |
History | |
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Canada | |
Name | Lanark |
Namesake | Lanark, Ontario |
Ordered | June 1942 |
Builder | Canadian Vickers Ltd. Montreal, Quebec |
Laid down | 25 September 1943 |
Launched | 10 December 1943 |
Commissioned | 6 July 1944 |
Decommissioned | 24 October 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K 669 |
Recommissioned | 15 April 1956 |
Decommissioned | 19 March 1965 |
Reclassified | Prestonian-class frigate 1956 |
Identification | pennant number: FFE 321 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1944–45[1][2] |
Fate | Sold, scrapped 1966 |
Badge | Barry wavy of ten argent and azure a bull's head caboshed gules, horns proper[2] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | River-class frigate |
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Length | |
Beam | 36.5 ft (11.13 m) |
Draught | 9 ft (2.74 m); 13 ft (3.96 m) (deep load) |
Propulsion | 2 x Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) |
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Range | 646 long tons (656 t; 724 short tons) oil fuel; 7,500 nautical miles (13,890 km) at 15 knots (27.8 km/h) |
Complement | 157 |
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Lanark was ordered in June 1942 as part of the 1942–1943 River-class building program.[3][4] She was laid down on 25 September 1943 by Canadian Vickers Ltd. at Montreal, Quebec and launched 10 December 1943.[4] She was commissioned into the RCN on 6 July 1944 at Montreal.[3]