HMCS Cap de la Madeleine (K663) | |
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Career (Canada) | ![]() |
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: |
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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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- Barcoo
- Barwon
- Burdekin
- Condamine
- Murray / Culgoa
- Diamantina
- Gascoyne
- Hawkesbury
- Lachlan
- Macquarie
- Murchison
- Shoalhaven
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- Adur
- Alvington / Royal Mount
- Annan (K297)
- Annan (K404)
- Antigonish
- Beacon Hill
- Beauharnois / Prestonian
- Royal Mount / Buckingham
- Cap de la Madeleine
- Cape Breton
- Capilano
- Carlplace
- Charlottetown
- Chebogue
- Coaticook
- Eastview
- Ettrick
- Giffard / Toronto
- Grou
- Hallowell
- Inch Arran
- Joliette
- Jonquiere
- Kokanee
- La Hulloise
- La Tuque / Fort Erie
- Lanark
- Lasalle
- Lauzon (K371)
- Lauzon (K414) / Glace Bay
- Levis
- Longueuil
- Magog
- Meon
- Monnow
- Montreal
- Nene
- New Glasgow
- New Waterford
- Orkney
- Outremont
- Port Colborne
- Poundmaker
- Prince Rupert
- Ribble
- Rouyn / Penetang
- Runnymede
- Saint John
- Meganic / Sea Cliff
- Springhill
- St. Catharines
- St. Jerome / Kirkland Lake
- St. Pierre
- St. Stephen
- Ste. Therese
- Stettler
- Stone Town / Glengarry
- Stormont (K327)
- Stormont (K444) / Matane
- Strathadam
- Swansea
- Teme
- Thetford Mines
- Valdorian / Sussexvale
- Valleyfield
- Verdun / Dunver
- Victoriaville
- HMCS Waskesiu (K330)
- Wentworth
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- L'Aventure (ex-Braid)
- Croix de Lorraine (ex-Strule)
- La Découverte / Lucifer (ex-Windrush)
- L'Escarmouche / L'Ailette (ex-Frome)
- La Surprise (ex-Torridge)
- Tonkinois / La Confiance (ex-Moyola)
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- Johan Maurits van Nassau (ex-Ribble (K251))
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| group7=United States NavyAsheville class | list7=
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Myanmar Navy | |
Royal New Zealand Navy | |
Royal Norwegian Navy | |
Pakistan Navy | |
Peruvian Navy | |
Portuguese Navy |
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- Preceded by: None
- Followed by: Tacoma class / Colony class
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