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Gatineau (I) (H.M.C.S.)Photo Credit: RCN Official Photo |
Registry #1 | H.61 (RN) | Registry #2 | H.61 (RCN) | Registry #3 | |
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IMO# | MMSI# | VRN# |
Name 1 | 1943 | Express (I) (H.M.S.) | Name 6 | ||
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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 |
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Designer | (nk) | Measurement (imp) | 329' x 33.3' x 10.8' |
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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) |
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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 |
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Significance of Name |
Anecdotes |
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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 |
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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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