HMCS Ambler (Q11)

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Name: HMCS Ambler
Builder: Tebo Yacht Basin Co., Brooklyn, New York
Launched: 1922
Commissioned: 6 May 1940
Decommissioned: 20 July 1945
General characteristics
Class and type: armed yacht
Displacement: 273 tons
Length: 130 ft (40 m)
Beam: 23 ft (7.0 m)
Draught: 10 ft (3.0 m)
Speed: 9 knots
Complement: 21
Armament: 3-.303 mg.

HMCS Ambler (Q11) was an armed yacht that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN).

Initially carrying the pennant number Q11 and later Z32, she was launched in 1922 in Brooklyn, New York as the Ambler and was commissioned into the RCN on May 6, 1940. She was paid off on July 20, 1945.

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