NAVY HISTORY - Ships - Fishery Patrol Vessels

HMCS NITINAT

The Canadian West Coast became a ship building powerhouse during the Second World War for both Naval and merchant ships. Additional information regarding the construction, record and ultimate fate of these ships will be added to these pages as this project progresses with current information available through the links listed below.

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HMCS NITINAT

Builder:Star Shipyards (Mercers) Ltd. New Westminster, British Columbia

Construction Started: 1939

Launched: 1939

Commissioned :1939

Entire Career service on West Coast

Decommissioned :1945

Paid Off 1945, Destroyed by fire on 01 Feb 1977

Other Ships

Patrol Vessel

Specifications

HMCS NITINAT

Displacement: 135

Length: 99.5'

Beam: 17.7'

Draught: 10.7'

Propulsion: 526bhp diesel engine (1939)

Speed: unkn

Compliment: unkn

Armarments:

Patrol Vessels

Commanders

A/Skpr Andrew Lindsay Murray, RCNR - 13 Jan 1940 - unk
A/Lt John Scudamore Cunningham, RCNR - 17 Jun 1940 - unk
Lt Raiffe Dillon Barrett, RCNR - 01 Jan 1941 - unk
Ch/Skpr Ernest Edward Kinney, RCNR - 01 Jan 1942 - unk
Skpr/Lt Alan Wittaker Ogden, RCNR - 25 Mar 1943 - unk
Skpr/Lt Noel Harry Hutton, RCNR - 13 Jan 1944 - unk
Skpr/Lt, Frank PEterson, RCNR - 21 Jun 1944 - unk

Sources

CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum Joseph M. Lenarcik, Assistant Curator. Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada
Government of Canada - Navy. https://www.canada.ca/en/navy/services/history/ships-histories.html
PHOTO CREDIT - HMCS Nitinat - http://www.nauticapedia.ca/dbase/Query/Shiplist4.php?&name=Nitinat%20%28H.M.C.S.%29&id=22050
Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
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.
Douglas, W.A.B.; Sarty, Roger; Whitby, Michael (2002). No Higher Purpose: The Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War, 1939–1943 Volume II, Part I. St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing. ISBN 1-55125-061-6.
Macpherson, Ken; Barrie, Ron (2002). The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910–2002 (Third ed.). St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing. ISBN 1-55125-072-1.
http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_PRINCE_DAVID_F89.htm.
https://www.nauticapedia.ca/dbase/Query/Shiplist5.php?id=21417
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Prince_David_(F89)

Cite Article : Reference: www.navyhistory/sections/Ships/Minesweepers/HMCS_Courtenay.html

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