![]() HMCS Brandon
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Name | Brandon |
Namesake | Brandon, Manitoba |
Ordered | 22 January 1940 |
Builder | Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon |
Laid down | 10 October 1940 |
Launched | 29 April 1941 |
Commissioned | 22 July 1941 |
Decommissioned | 22 June 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K149 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1941–45[1] Gulf of St. Lawrence 1944[2] |
Fate | Scrapped 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette (original)[3] |
Displacement | 925 long tons (940 t; 1,036 short tons) |
Length | 205 ft (62.48 m)o/a |
Beam | 33 ft (10.06 m) |
Draught | 11.5 ft (3.51 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
Complement | 85 |
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Armament |
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HMCS Brandon was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She saw service primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as an ocean escort. She was named for Brandon, Manitoba.