Ship Details

Gatineau (I) (H.M.C.S.)

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Registry #1 H.61 (RN) Registry #2 H.61 (RCN) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1943 Express (I) (H.M.S.) Name 6
Name 2 1943 Gatineau (H.M.C.S.) Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1943 Place Newcastle-on-Tyne Area Lancs Country UK
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 329' x 33.3' x 10.8'
Builder Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Destroyer, (River-class)
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 2 steam turbine engines Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Twin Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # H.61 Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1943-1946 she was in service with the Royal Canadian Navy. In 1952 she was sold to Morris Greene, Victoria BC for scrapping.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1952-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was (as H.M.S. Express) one of the escorts to H.M.S. Reulse and H.M.S. Prince of Wales when this vessel was sunk by the Japanese in 1941. At the end of the Second World War this vessel was laid up in the ship boneyard at Bedwell Bay in Indian Arm BC. Her hulk was used to form a breakwater at Royston, BC.
 
References
Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; Freeman, David J. (2000); MacFarlane, John M. (1990) Capital Iron: Scrap dealers in Lotusland. In Resolution (Newletter of the Maritime Museum of British Columbia); Sooke Region Museum (1989); https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Express_(H61);
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