NAVY HISTORY - Ships - Light Cruisers
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 ONTARIO
Builder: Harland & Wolff, Belfast Yard 1171
Construction Started: 20 November 1941
Launched: 29 July 1943
Commissioned :25 May 1945
Transferred to Royal Canadian Navy in July 1944 - to Okinawa and then Esquimalt, BC
Deommissioned :15 October 1958
Paid Off Nov 5th, 1945 at Esquimalt
Other ShipsHMCS ONTARIO
Displacement: 8,800 tons standard
Length:555.5 ft (169.3 m)
Beam: 63 ft (19 m)
Draught: 17.25 ft (5.26 m)
Propulsion:Four Admiralty-type three drum boilers Four shaft Parsons steam turbines 72,500 shp (54,100 kW)
Speed: 31.5 knots (58.3 km/h)
Compliment: 867
Armarments:
Three triple 6-inch / 50 Mk 23 guns
Five dual 4-inch / 45 QF Mk 16 HA guns
Four quad QF 2-pdr guns
Six single 40 mm AA guns
Two triple 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- 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 - HMCS Ontario - http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_ONTARIO_C32.htm
- 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
Source: NA
