HMCS Kapuskasing
- 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 Kapuskasing17 August 1944 — 1972381 days of the war
- Name
- HMCS Kapuskasing
- Pennant / hull number
- J236
- Namesake
- Kapuskasing, Ontario
- Builder
- Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Port Arthur
- Ordered
- 12 December 1941
- Laid down
- 19 December 1942
- Launched
- 22 July 1943
- Commissioned
- 17 August 1944
- Decommissioned
- 27 March 1946
- Recommissioned
- 1949
- Fate
- Expended as target 1978 (1978)
- Status
- Wreck
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 Kapuskasing was a destroyer escort of the Algerine-class minesweeper of the Royal Canadian Navy. She carried the pennant number J236. She was named for Kapuskasing. Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Port Arthur laid her keel on 19 December 1942. Launched on 22 July 1943, she entered service on 17 August 1944.
14 ships of the class were built. 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 381 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned on 27 March 1946. She recommissioned in 1949.
She was expended as a target in 1978. The wreck survives.
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 Kapuskasing on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.