HMCS Rockcliffe
- Displacement
- 1,030 long tons (1,047 t)
- Length
- 68.58 m (225 ft)
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Speed
- 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h, 19 mph)
- Complement
- 85
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
Service
- as Rockcliffe30 September 1944 — 15 August 1950339 days of the war
- Name
- HMCS Rockcliffe
- Pennant / hull number
- J335
- Namesake
- Rockcliffe Park
- Builder
- Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Port Arthur
- Laid down
- 23 December 1942
- Launched
- 19 August 1943
- Commissioned
- 30 September 1944
- Decommissioned
- 28 July 1945
- Recommissioned
- 3 March 1947
- Fate
- Sold for scrap 24 March 1960 (1960)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,030 long tons (1,047 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,325 long tons (1,346 t)
- Length
- 68.58 m (225 ft) OA
- Beam
- 10.67 m (35 ft)
- Draught
- 3.73 m (12.2 ft)
- Speed
- 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h, 19 mph)
- Range
- 5,000 nmi (9,260 km)
- Complement
- 85
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMCS Rockcliffe was a destroyer escort of the Algerine-class minesweeper in service with the Royal Canadian Navy. She carried the pennant number J335. She was named for Rockcliffe Park. Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Port Arthur laid her keel on 23 December 1942. Launched on 19 August 1943, she entered service on 30 September 1944.
She was one of 14 ships of her class. The class followed the Bangor-class minesweeper and was succeeded by the Ton-class minesweeper.
Displacement was 1,030 long tons standard and 1,325 long tons at full load. She measured 68.6 m (225 ft) long with a beam of 10.7 m (35 ft). Her designed speed was 16.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 85. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
Her machinery developed 2,400 ihp through two shafts.
She was in commission for 339 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 28 July 1945. She recommissioned on 3 March 1947.
She was broken up for scrap on 24 March 1960.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 shafts
- 2 vertical triple-expansion steam engines
- Power
- 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 2400 ihp
- Armament
- 1 × QF 4 in Mk V anti-aircraft gun
- 4 × twin Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
- 1 × Hedgehog
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMCS Rockcliffe on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.