HMCS Oakville
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HMCS Oakville was a Royal Canadian Navy Flower-class corvette which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. After the war she was sold to the Venezuelan Navy. She was named after Oakville, Ontario.
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HMCS Oakville seen on 7 August 1943 near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, while on passage from Saint John, New Brunswick, to Halifax, Nova Scotia, as an escort to convoy FH-70 | |
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Name | Oakville |
Namesake | Oakville, Ontario |
Ordered | 1 February 1940 |
Builder | Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co., Port Arthur |
Laid down | 21 December 1940 |
Launched | 21 June 1941 |
Commissioned | 18 November 1941 |
Decommissioned | 20 July 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K178 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1942-45[1] |
Fate | Sold in 1946 to Venezuela as Patria. |
Venezuela | |
Name | Patria |
Acquired | purchased from Royal Canadian Navy |
Commissioned | 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette[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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