NAVY HISTORY - Ships - Mine Sweepers

HMCS OUTARDE

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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HMCS OUTARDE

Builder: North Vancouver Ship Repairs Ltd., North Vancouver, British Columbia

Construction Started: 15 October 1940

Launched: 27 January 1941

Commissioned :4 December 1941

Pennant #: J161

Entire Career service on West Coast

Decommissioned :24 November 1945

Sold 1946 for mercantile conversion

Other Ships

Bangor Class - Mine Sweeper

Specifications

HMCS OUTARDE

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

Other Mine Sweepers

Commanders

Lt Henry McKee Kennedy, RCNR - 04 Dec 1941 - 25 Feb 1942
Lt Aubrey Alvin Randle Dykes, RCNR - 26 Feb 1942 - 09 Mar 1942
Lt Henry McKee Kennedy, RCNR - 10 Mar 1942 - 18 May 1942
Lt Ronald Jackson, RCNVR - 19 May 1942 - 05 Feb 1943
A/LCdr James Alastair Macdonnell, RCNR - 06 Feb 1943 - unk
A/LCdr Harold Heap Rankin, RCNR - 06 Jun 1943 - unk
Lt H.B. Tindale, RCNVR - 24 Feb 1944 - 09 Mar 1944
Lt Alexander Charles Jones, RCNR - 10 Mar 1944 - 23 Aug 1944
Lt Harry Bush Tindale, RCNVR - 24 Aug 1944 - 24 Aug 1945
Lt J.P. Kieran, RCNR - 25 Aug 1945 - 04 Oct 1945

Sources

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 Outarde - http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_OUTARDE_J161.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.html
http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_OUTARDE_J161.htm
http://www.nauticapedia.ca/dbase/Query/Shiplist4.php?&name=Outarde%20(H.M.C.S.)&id=22966&Page=1&input=Outarde
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Outarde

Cite Article : Reference: www.navyhistory/sections/Ships/Minesweepers/HMCS_Courtenay.html

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