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HMCS Beaver (S10)
Career (Canada) Canadian Blue Ensign
Name: HMCS Beaver
Builder: Crescent Shipyard, Elizabeth, New Jersey
Launched: 1902
Commissioned: 1 April 1941
Decommissioned: 17 October 1944
Identification: Pennant number: S10 (later Z10)
Honours and
awards:
Atlantic 1942
General characteristics
Class & type: Armed yacht
Displacement: 808 tons
Length: 260 ft (79 m)
Beam: 28 ft (8.5 m)
Draught: 13 ft (4.0 m)
Speed: 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement: 50
Armament: 1-4"
Notes: Formerly Aztec

HMCS Beaver was an armed yacht that served in the Royal Canadian Navy.

Initially carrying the pennant number S10 and later Z10, she was launched in 1902 under the name Aztec in Elizabeth, New Jersey and was commissioned as Beaver into the Royal Canadian Navy on 4 April 1941. She was paid off on 17 October 1944.

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