Royal Canadian Navy — Destroyer escort class
Algerine-class minesweeper
Algerine class
The class in numbers
- 110 Completed
- 6 Lost
- 1 Preserved
Design and service
- Type
- Destroyer escort
- Navies
- Royal Canadian Navy 12
Royal Navy 2 - Preceded by
- Bangor-class minesweeper
- Succeeded by
- Ton-class minesweeper
- Operators
- Canada, Naval Ensign of Burma (1948-1974).svg Burmese Navy, Naval Ensign of Nigeria (1960–1998).svg Royal Nigerian Navy
- Builders
- United Kingdom (50)
- Canada (60)
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
As built
- 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
- Speed
- 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h, 19 mph)
- Complement
- 85
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
- Armament
- 1 × QF 4 in Mk V anti-aircraft gun
- 4 × twin Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
- Hedgehog (Escorts only)
Roster
Holding 14 of the 110 hulls recorded for this class. Vessels transferred to another navy are catalogued under the navy that sailed them and appear there instead.
| Vessel | Pennant | Commissioned | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|
| HMCS Border Cities | J-344 | 1944 | Scrapped 1948 |
| HMCS Fort Frances | J396 | 1944 | Transferred 1948 |
| HMCS Kapuskasing | J236 | 1944 | Target 1978 |
| HMCS Middlesex | J328 | 1944 | Wrecked 1946 |
| HMCS New Liskeard | J397 | 1944 | Scrapped 1969 |
| HMCS Oshawa | J-330 | 1944 | Scrapped 1966 |
| HMCS Portage | J331 | 1943 | Scrapped 1961 |
| HMCS Rockcliffe | J335 | 1944 | Scrapped 1960 |
| HMCS Sault Ste. Marie | J334 | 1943 | Scrapped 1960 |
| HMCS St. Boniface | J332 | 1943 | |
| HMCS Wallaceburg | J-336 | 1943 | Scrapped |
| HMCS Winnipeg (J337) | J337 | 1943 | Scrapped 1966 |
| HMS Algerine (J213) | J213 | 1942 | Sunk 1942 |
| HMS Rifleman (J299) | J299 | 1944 | 1972 |
Sources
- Facts harvested from Algerine-class minesweeper on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.