Ship Details

Humberstone (H.M.C.S.)

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Photo Credit: RCN Official Photo

 
 
Registry #1 K.497 (RCN) Registry #2 (China Registry) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1944 Norham Castle (H.M.S.) Name 6 1954 South Ocean
Name 2 1944 Humberstone (H.M.C.S.) Name 7
Name 3 1946 Taiwei Name 8
Name 4 (nk) Chang Chen Name 9
Name 5 (nk) San Blas Name 10
 
Year Built 1944 Place Glasgow Area Scotland Country UK
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 251.6' x 26.6' x 10'
Builder A. & J. Inglis Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement 1010
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Corvette, (Castle Class ex-RN)
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 2750hp four-cylinder TE engine water-tube boiler. Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # K.497 Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1944 she was owned by the Royal Navy. She was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy as H.M.C.S. Humberstone and commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on 06/09/1944 to 17/11/1945. She was sold in 1946 into the Chinese register.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1959-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel was launched on 12/04/1944. this vessel was capabale of 16.5 knots with an endurance of 9500nm at 10 knots. This vessel had a complement of 8 officers and 112 other ranks. this vessel was acquired in 1944 as one of 12 vessel in exchange for twelve Canadian-built Algerine class minesweepers. this vessel was broken up at Hong Kong in 1959.
 
References
Macpherson, Ken and Marc Milner (1993); Macpherson, Ken and John Burgess (1981); Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; Freeman, David J. (2000)
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