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 NEW GLASGOW
Builder: Yarrow Shipyards, Yard # 86
Construction Started: 2 December 1942
Launched: 23 June 1943
Commissioned :22 December 1943
Pennant #: FEE 315
Atlantic, 1944-1945
Commissioned :4 November 1945
sold, broken up Japan 1967
Other ShipsHMCS NEW GLASGOW
Displacement: 1,445 long tons (1,468 t; 1,618 short tons) 2,110 long tons (2,140 t; 2,360 short tons) (deep load)
Length: 283 ft (86.26 m) p/p 301.25 ft (91.82 m)o/a
Beam: 36.5 ft (11.13 m)
Draught: 9 ft (2.74 m); 13 ft (3.96 m) (deep load)
Propulsion:2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW)
Speed: 20 knots (37.0 km/h) 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h) (turbine ships)
Compliment: 157
Armarments:
2 × single QF 4 in (102 mm) /40 Mk.XIX guns
1 × QF 12 pounder 76 mm (3.0 in)) 12 cwt /40 Mk. V on mounting HA/LA Mk.IX (not all ships)
8 × 20 mm QF Oerlikon A/A on twin mounts Mk.V
1 × Hedgehog 24 spigot A/S projector
up to 150 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 Ross M. Hanbury Courtesy of Eric Hanbury
- 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_NEW_GLASGOW_K320_315.htm
- https://www.canada.ca/en/navy/services/history/ships-histories/new-glasgow.html
- http://www.nauticapedia.ca/dbase/Query/Shiplist4.php?&name=New%20Glasgow%20%28H.M.C.S.%29&id=21948
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_New_Glasgow
Cite Article : Reference: www.navyhistory/sections/Ships/Minesweepers/HMCS_Courtenay.html
Source: NA
