Ship Details

Alberni (H.M.C.S.)

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Registry #1 K.103 (RCN) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1940 Alberni (H.M.C.S.) Name 6
Name 2 Name 7
Name 3 Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1940 Place Esquimalt Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 205' x 33' x 13.5'
Builder Yarrows Ltd. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement 950
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Corvette, Flower Class (1939-40 Canadian Building Programme)
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 2750ihp steam reciprocating engine with a 4-cylinder Triple expansion engine with 2 Scotch marine boilers Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # K.103 Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1940-1944 she was commissioned in the Royal Canadian Navy.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1944-08-21
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel carried 230 tons of fuel and could reach 16 knots. Her endurance was 3450 nm at 12 knots. This vessel was armed with one 4 in BL Mk.IX, two twin .5 in machine guns and two twin .303 machine guns, two (later four) depth charge throwers and two rails (later four) carrying 40 depth charges (later 70). This vessel carried a complement of 7 officers and 85-90 other ranks. This vessel participated in Operations Torch and Neptune. This vessel was torpedoed and sunk by U-480 in the English Channel on August 21, 1944 with the loss of 59 lives.
 
References
Macpherson, Ken and John Burgess (1981); Macpherson, Ken and Marc Milner (1993); Freeman, David J. (2000)
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