HMCS Beauharnois (K540)
HMCS Beauharnois | |
| History | |
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| Canada | |
| Name | HMCS Beauharnois |
| Namesake | Beauharnois, Quebec |
| Ordered | June 1942 |
| Builder | Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City |
| Laid down | 8 November 1943 |
| Launched | 11 May 1944 |
| Commissioned | 25 September 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 12 July 1945 |
| Identification | Pennant number: K540 |
| Honours & awards | Atlantic 1944-45 |
| Fate | Sold to Mossad LeAliyah Bet in 1946 |
| Israel | |
| Name | INS Wedgwood |
| Namesake | Josiah Wedgwood |
| Commissioned | 9 September 1948 |
| Decommissioned | 1954 |
| Identification | K-18 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1956 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Modified Flower-class corvette |
| Displacement | 1,015 long tons (1,031 t; 1,137 short tons) |
| Length | 208 ft (63.4 m)o/a |
| Beam | 33 ft (10.1 m) |
| Draught | 11 ft (3.35 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 | 90 |
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HMCS Beauharnois was a modified Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War, primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. After the war it was sold to a Jewish resettlement movement and eventually made its way into the nascent Israeli Navy.