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 KELOWNA
Builder: Prince Rupert Dry Dock & Shipyards Co., Prince Rupert, British Columbia
Construction Started: 27 December 1940
Launched: 28 May 1941
Commissioned :5 February 1942
Pennant #: J261
Entire Career service on West Coast
Decommissioned :22 October 1945
Sold for mercantile service 1946
Other ShipsHMCS KELOWNA
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 x QF 3-inch (76 mm) 20 cwt 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 Kelowna - http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_KELOWNA_J261.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/kelowna.html
- http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_KELOWNA_J261.htm
- http://www.nauticapedia.ca/dbase/Query/Shiplist4.php?&name=Kelowna%20(H.M.C.S.)&id=8134&Page=1&input=Kelowna
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Kelowna
Cite Article : Reference: www.navyhistory/sections/Ships/Minesweepers/HMCS_Courtenay.html
Source: NA
