 HMCS Fergus
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| History | |
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| Name | HMCS Fergus |
| Namesake | Fergus, Ontario |
| Operator | Royal Canadian Navy |
| Ordered | 2 January 1942 |
| Builder | Collingwood Shipyards Ltd., Collingwood |
| Laid down | 10 December 1943 |
| Launched | 30 August 1944 |
| Commissioned | 18 November 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 14 July 1945 |
| Identification | Pennant number: K686 |
| Honours and awards | Atlantic 1944-45[1] |
| Fate | Sold for mercantile use, sunk 1949 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Flower-class corvette (modified) |
| Displacement | 1,015 long tons (1,031 t; 1,137 short tons) |
| Length | 208 ft (63.40 m)o/a |
| Beam | 33 ft (10.06 m) |
| Draught | 11 ft (3.35 m) |
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| Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
| Range | 7,400 nautical miles (13,705 km) at 10 knots (18.5 km/h) |
| Complement | 90 |
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HMCS Fergus was a modified Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for Fergus, Ontario. She was originally named Fort Frances but was renamed before launching.[2] She was the last corvette launched by the Royal Canadian Navy.[3]
- ^ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Macpherson, Ken; Burgess, John (1981). The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910-1981 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships. Toronto: Collins. p. 95. ISBN 0-00216-856-1.