NAVY HISTORY - Ships - Mine Sweepers
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 CANSO
Builder: North Vancouver Ship Repairs, North Vancouver, British Columbia
Construction 30 December 1940
Launched: 9 June 1941
Commissioned : 5 March 1942
Pennant #: J 21
Normandy 1944, Atlantic 1944
Decommissioned :24 September 1945
returned to Royal Navy 1945, broken up 1948
Other ShipsHMCS CANSO
Displacement: 672 long tons (683 t)
Length: 180 ft (54.9 m) oa
Beam: 28 ft 6 in (8.7 m)
Draught: 9 ft 9 in (3.0 m)
Propulsion:2 Admiralty 3-drum water tube boilers, 2 shafts, vertical triple-expansion reciprocating engines, 2,400 ihp (1,790 kW)
Speed: 16.5 knots (31 km/h)
Compliment: 83
Armarments:
1 × 12-pounder (3 in (76 mm)) 12 cwt HA gun
2 × QF 20 mm Oerlikon guns
40 depth charges as escort
Other Mine Sweepers
- 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 Canso - http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_CANSO_J21.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.
- Macpherson, Ken (1997). Minesweepers of the Royal Canadian Navy 1938–1945. St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing. ISBN 0-920277-55-1.
- https://www.canada.ca/en/navy/services/history/ships-histories/canso.html
- http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_CANSO_J21.htm
- https://www.nauticapedia.ca/dbase/Query/Shiplist5.php?id=21417
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Canso
Cite Article : Reference: www.navyhistory/sections/Ships/Minesweepers/HMCS_Courtenay.html
Source: NA
