HMCS Antigonish
HMCS Antigonish | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Canada | |
| Name | Antigonish |
| Namesake | Antigonish, Nova Scotia |
| Ordered | 1 February 1943 |
| Builder | Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt |
| Laid down | 2 October 1943 |
| Launched | 10 February 1944 |
| Commissioned | 4 July 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 2 May 1946 |
| Identification | Pennant number: K661 |
| Recommissioned | 26 April 1947 |
| Decommissioned | 15 January 1954 |
| Recommissioned | 12 October 1957 |
| Decommissioned | 30 November 1966 |
| Identification | Pennant number: FFE 301 |
| Motto | Be worthy |
| Honours & awards | Atlantic 1945; Gulf of St. Lawrence 1944 |
| Fate | Broken up in Japan, 1968 |
| Notes | Colours: Gold and black |
| Badge | Blazon Argent, a bear rampant sable, langued gules, grasping and breaking with its forepaws a beech bough proper. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | River-class frigate |
| Displacement | 1,445 long tons (1,468 t) standard |
| Length | |
| Beam | 36 ft 7 in (11.15 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft 0 in (2.74 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) |
| Speed | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Range | 7,200 nmi (13,300 km; 8,300 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Complement | 145 |
| Sensors & processing systems | |
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HMCS Antigonish, named for Antigonish, Nova Scotia, was a River-class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War in the Battle of the Atlantic from 1944 to 1945. The vessel was laid down on 2 October 1943 and launched on 10 February 1944. The ship was commissioned on 4 July 1944 and escorted transatlantic convoys providing anti-submarine protection. The frigate remained in service until after the end of the war, being decommissioned on 2 May 1946 placed in reserve. Antigonish was reactivated in 1947 for use as a training ship during the Korean War and remained as such until 1954 when she was decommissioned again. She was recommissioned on 12 October 1957 after undergoing a modernization program that reconfigured the ship into a Prestonian-class frigate. The vessel remained in service until 30 November 1966 and was sold for scrap, and broken up in Japan in 1968.