HMCS Cape Breton (ARE 100)
HMS Flamborough Head underway in coastal waters. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom | |
| Name | Flamborough Head |
| Builder | Burrard Dry Dock, North Vancouver |
| Laid down | 5 July 1944 |
| Launched | 7 October 1944 |
| Commissioned | 2 May 1945 |
| Out of service | 1952 |
| Fate | Sold to Canadian Government, 1952 |
| Canada | |
| Name | Cape Breton |
| Namesake | Cape Breton |
| Acquired | 31 January 1953 |
| Commissioned | 16 November 1959 |
| Decommissioned | 10 February 1964 |
| Motto | "La chance ne change pas la course" (Chance changes not our course) |
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| Fate | Sunk as artificial reef, 20 October 2001, near Nanaimo, Vancouver Island |
| Badge | Azure, a spur gear argent charged with a device consisting of three ermine spots conjoined in the center, one pointing to the chief, once to the dexter base and once to the sinister base in trefoil fashion sable, and between them issuing from the center, three thistle blooms coloured proper. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Cape-class maintenance ship |
| Displacement | 8,580 long tons (8,718 t) |
| Length | 134.6 m (441 ft 7.2 in) |
| Beam | 17.4 m (57 ft 1.0 in) |
| Draught | 6.1 m (20.0 ft) |
| Propulsion | Oil-fired triple expansion steam engines, 2 Foster Wheeler boilers, 1 shaft, 6,000 hp (4,474 kW) |
| Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
| Complement | 270 |
| Armament | 16 × 20 mm guns |
| Aircraft carried | can handle Sikorsky HO4S |
| Aviation facilities | helicopter pad |
HMCS Cape Breton was a Royal Canadian Navy Cape-class maintenance ship. Originally built for the Royal Navy as HMS Flamborough Head in 1944, she was transferred in 1952. Upon her commissioning she was the second ship to bear the name Cape Breton. She served operationally from 1953–1964, when she was laid up. She was used as a floating machine shop until the late-1990s, before being sold for use as an artificial reef off the coast of British Columbia.