| HMCS Vancouver (F6A) | |
|---|---|
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| Career (United Kingdom) |  |
| Name: | HMS Toreador |
| Namesake: | Toreador |
| Builder: | Thorneycroft |
| Launched: | 7 December 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 1928 |
| Fate: | Transferred to RCN |
| Career (Canada) |  |
| Name: | HMCS Vancouver (F6A) |
| Namesake: | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Acquired: | 1 March 1928 |
| Decommissioned: | 1937 |
| Fate: | Arrived Vancouver 24 April 1937 for scrapping |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Thornycroft S-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 1,087 tons |
| Length: | 276 ft (84 m) |
| Beam: | 27.5 ft (8.4 m) |
| Draught: | 10.5 ft (3.2 m) |
| Speed: | 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
| Crew: | 90 |
| Armament: |
3 x QF 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mark IV guns 1 x 12 pounder 2 × twin tubes for 21-inch (530 mm) torpedo tubes |
HMCS Vancouver, was a Thornycroft S-class destroyer, formerly HMS Toreador built for the Royal Navy in 1917-19.
This ship, along with her sister HMS Torbay, were donated by the British Government to Canada in March 1928 to replace their two existing destroyers, HMCS Patrician and HMCS Patriot.[1] At the same time the Canadian Government commissioned the construction of two further destroyers, HMCS Saguenay and HMCS Skeena.[2] During the 1930s the Vancouver served on the west coast of Canada alongside the Skeena.[3]
This ship and her sister ship HMCS Champlain was paid off and broken up in 1937.[4]
Notes[]
- ↑ German (1990), p. 59.
- ↑ "3". Canadian Forces Logistics Branch Handbook. 1. Canadian Forces Logistic Branch. http://www.dnd.ca/admmat/logbranch/handbook/Volume1/chap3_e.htm. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
- ↑ German (1990), p. 62.
- ↑ German (1990), p. 62.
References[]
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
- German, Tony (1990). The Sea is at our Gates—The History of the Canadian Navy. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Press.
- "Admiralty 'S' Type". Canadian Navy of Yesterday and Today. http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/canada/ww1/admiralt/. Retrieved July 21, 2013.
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