NAVY HISTORY - Ships - Frigate
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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Ship Information 
HMCS KOKANEE
Builder: Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt, Esquimalt Yard 95, British Columbia
Construction Started: 25 August 1943
Launched: 27 November 1943
Commissioned :6 June 1944
Pennant # :K419
Atlantic 1944–45, Gulf of St. Lawrence 1944
Decommissioned : 21 December 1945
Sold to India, 1948
Other ShipsHMCS KOKANEE
Displacement: 1,445 tonnes (empty), 2,216 tonnes (full load)
Length: 301.5 ft (91.9 m)
Beam: 37 ft (11 m)
Draught: 13 ft (4.0 m)
2 shafts, VTE, 2 boilers, 2 reciprocating main engines; 5,500 hp (4,100 kW)
Speed: 19 knots (35 km/h)
Compliment: 141
Armarments:
1 x QF 4 in (102 mm) guns (later dual)
1 x QF 12 pdr (3 in (76 mm)) gun
4 x 20 mm guns
1 Hedgehog ASW mortar
4 Mk.IV depth charge throwers
150–200 depth charges
- 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
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PHOTO CREDIT - From the collection of George Burton Courtesy of Len Burton
- 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_KOKANEE_K419.htm
- https://www.canada.ca/en/navy/services/history/ships-histories/kokanee.html
- http://www.nauticapedia.ca/dbase/Query/Shiplist4.php?&name=Kokanee%20%28H.M.C.S.%29&id=8451&Page=1&input=Kokanee
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Kokanee
Cite Article : Reference: www.navyhistory/sections/Ships/Minesweepers/HMCS_Courtenay.html
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