 HMCS Mimico
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| History | |
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 Canada | |
| Name | HMCS Mimico |
| Namesake | Mimico, Ontario |
| Ordered | 15 May 1942 |
| Builder | John Crown & Sons Ltd. Sunderland |
| Laid down | 22 February 1943 |
| Launched | 11 October 1943 |
| Commissioned | 8 February 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 18 July 1945 |
| Identification | Pennant number: K485 |
| Honours and awards | Atlantic 1945, English Channel 1945[1] |
| Fate | Sold for commercial use |
| 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) |
| Propulsion | single shaft, 2 × oil fired water tube boilers, 1 triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine, 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW) |
| Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
| Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
| Complement | 90 |
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HMCS Mimico was a modified Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She served primarily as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was originally laid down by the Royal Navy as HMS Bullrush but was never commissioned into the RN, being transferred to the RCN before completion. She is named for Mimico, Ontario, a town that was eventually amalgamated into the larger city Toronto, Ontario.[2]
- ^ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 5 October 2013.
- ^ "HMCS MIMICO K485". For Posterity's Sake Canadian Genealogy. Retrieved 5 October 2012.