HMCS Cap de la Madeleine

HMCS Cap de la Madeleine
History
Canada
NameCap de la Madeleine
NamesakeCap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec
OrderedOctober 1941
BuilderMorton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City
Yard number31
Laid down5 November 1943
Launched13 May 1944
Commissioned30 September 1944
Decommissioned25 November 1945
IdentificationPennant number: K663
Recommissioned7 December 1954
Decommissioned15 May 1965
ReclassifiedPrestonian-class frigate
Identificationpennant number: FFE 317
Honours and
awards		Atlantic 1945[1]
FateBroken up La Spezia, Italy 1966
BadgeAzure, on an Indian tomahawk and woodsman's axe in saltire argent, an annulet on which a shepherd's crook erect or, and over all within the annulet a lozenge argent charged with an anchor azure.[1]
General characteristics
Class and typeRiver-class frigate
Displacement
  • 1,445 long tons (1,468 t; 1,618 short tons)
  • 2,110 long tons (2,140 t; 2,360 short tons) (deep load)
Length
  • 283 ft (86.26 m) p/p
  • 301.25 ft (91.82 m)o/a
Beam36.5 ft (11.13 m)
Draught9 ft (2.74 m); 13 ft (3.96 m) (deep load)
Propulsion2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW)
Speed
  • 20 knots (37.0 km/h)
  • 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h) (turbine ships)
Range646 long tons (656 t; 724 short tons) oil fuel; 7,500 nautical miles (13,890 km) at 15 knots (27.8 km/h)
Complement157
Armament

HMCS Cap de la Madeleine was a River-class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1944-1945 and as a Prestonian-class frigate from 1954-1965. She saw action in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort during the Second World War. She is named for Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec, which is now a part of Trois-Rivières.

Cap de la Madeleine was ordered in October 1941 as part of the 1942-43 building program.[2][3] She was laid down 5 November 1943 by Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City and launched 13 May 1944.[3] Cap de la Madeleine was commissioned into the RCN on 30 September 1944 at Quebec City with the pennant K663.[2]

  1. ^ a b Arbuckle, p. 18
  2. ^ a b Macpherson, Ken; Burgess, John (1981). The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910-1981 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships. Toronto: Collins. ISBN 0-00216-856-1.
  3. ^ a b "HMCS Cap de la Madeleine (K 663)". uboat.net. Retrieved 22 March 2014.