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 COWICHAN
Builder: North Vancouver Ship Repairs Ltd., North Vancouver, British Columbia
Construction Started: 24 April 1940
Launched: 8 September 1940
Commissioned :4 July 1941
Pennant # :J 146
Atlantic 1941–1943, Normandy 1944, English Channel 1944-45
Decommissioned : 9 October 1945
Sold 1946 for mercantile conversion.
Other ShipsHMCS COWICHEN
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 × QF 4 in (102 mm)/40 cal Mk IV gun
1 x QF 2 pdr 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 Cowichan - http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_COWICHAN_J146.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/cowichan.html
- http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_COWICHAN_J146.htm
- https://www.nauticapedia.ca/dbase/Query/Shiplist5.php?id=21417
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Cowichan_(MCB_162)
Cite Article : Reference: www.navyhistory/sections/Ships/Minesweepers/HMCS_Courtenay.html
Source: NA
