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 CHIGNECTO
Builder: North Van Ship Repair, Lonsdale Quay, North Vancouver, British Columbia
Construction Started: 9 November 1940
Launched: 12 December 1940
Commissioned : 31 October 1941
Pennant #: J160
Chignecto spent her whole career on the west coast
Decommissioned :3 November 1945
Sold to the Union Steamship Co. of British Columbia in 1946
Other ShipsHMCS CHIGNECTO
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 or 3 in (76 mm) 20 cwt HA gun
1 × QF 2-pounder Mark VIII
2 × QF 20 mm Oerlikon guns
40 depth charges as escort
- 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 Chignecto - http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_CHIGNECTO_J160.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.
- http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_CHIGNECTO_J160.htm
- http://www.nauticapedia.ca/dbase/Query/Shiplist4.php?&name=Chignecto%20%28H.M.C.S.%29%20%28I%29&id=3639
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Chignecto_(J160)
Cite Article : Reference: www.navyhistory/sections/Ships/Minesweepers/HMCS_Courtenay.html
Source: NA
