HMCS Norsyd

HMCS Norsyd
History
Canada
Name	HMCS Norsyd
Namesake	North Sydney, Nova Scotia
Ordered	2 January 1942
Builder	Morton Engineering and Dry Dock Co., Quebec City
Laid down	14 January 1943
Launched	31 July 1943
Commissioned	22 December 1943
Decommissioned	25 June 1945
Identification	Pennant number: K520
Honours and awards	Atlantic 1944-45;[1] Gulf of St. Lawrence 1944[2]
Fate	Sold for mercantile use
Israel
Name	INS Haganah
Acquired	1948
Decommissioned	1954
Identification	K-20
Fate	Scrapped 1956
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	7,400 nautical miles (13,705 km) at 10 knots (18.5 km/h)
Complement	90
Sensors and processing systems	1 Type 271 SW2C radar 1 Type 144 sonar
Armament	1 × 4 in (102 mm) QF Mk XIX naval gun 1 × 2-pounder Mk.VIII single "pom-pom" 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon single 1 × Hedgehog A/S mortar 4 × Mk.II depth charge throwers 2 × depth charge rails with 70 depth charges

HMCS Norsyd was a modified Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She served primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for North Sydney, Nova Scotia, her name being a contraction of the city's name. This was due to a naming conflict with a Royal Australian Navy vessel.^[3] After the war she served as a merchant ship and then as a corvette in the Israeli Navy.