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HMCS Cap de la Madeleine (K663)
Career (Canada) Canada Royal Canadian Navy
Namesake: Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec
Builder: Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City
Laid down: 5 November 1943
Launched: 13 May 1944
Commissioned: 30 September 1944
Decommissioned: 25 November 1945
Identification: Pennant number: K663
From 1954: 317
Honours and
awards:
Atlantic 1945
Badge: Blazon Azure, on an Indian tomahawk and woodsman's axe in saltire argent, an annulet on which a shepherd's crook erect or, and over all within the annulet a lozenge argent charged with an anchor azure.
General characteristics
Class & type: River-class frigate
Displacement: 1,445 long tons (1,468 t; 1,618 short tons)
2,110 long tons (2,140 t; 2,360 short tons) (deep load)
Length: 283 ft (86.26 m) p/p
301.25 ft (91.82 m)o/a
Beam: 36.5 ft (11.13 m)
Draught: 9 ft (2.74 m); 13 ft (3.96 m) (deep load)
Propulsion: 2 x Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW)
Speed: 20 knots (37.0 km/h)
20.5 knots (38.0 km/h) (turbine ships)
Range: 646 long tons (656 t; 724 short tons) oil fuel; 7,500 nautical miles (13,890 km) at 15 knots (27.8 km/h)
Complement: 157
Armament:
  • 2 x QF 4 in (102 mm) /45 Mk. XVI on twin mount HA/LA Mk.XIX
  • 1 x QF 12 pdr (3 in / 76 mm) 12 cwt /50 Mk. V on mounting HA/LA Mk.IX (not all ships)
  • 8 x 20 mm QF Oerlikon A/A on twin mounts Mk.V
  • 1 x Hedgehog 24 spigot A/S projector
  • up to 150 depth charges

HMCS Cap de la Madeleine was a River-class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1944-1945 and as a Prestonian-class frigate from 1954-1965.

Built by Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City, she was commissioned into the RCN on 30 September 1944 with the pennant K663. She was placed in reserve in 1945 and reactivated in 1954. She underwent conversion to a Prestonian-class frigate and was recommissioned with pennant 317 on 7 December 1954.

She was paid off by the RCN in May 1965.

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  • HMS Tweed (K250)
  • Usk
  • HMS Waveney (K248)
  • HMS Wear (K230)
  • Windrush
  • HMS Wye (K371)

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