HMCS Antigonish (K661)
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| Career (Canada) |  Royal Canadian Navy |
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| Namesake: | Antigonish, Nova Scotia |
| Builder: | Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt |
| Laid down: | 2 Oct 1943 |
| Launched: | 10 Feb 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 4 Jul 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 2 May 1946 |
| Motto: | Be worthy |
| Honours and awards: |
Atlantic, 1944-1945 |
| Notes: | Colours: Gold and black |
| Badge: | Blazon Argent, a bear rampant sable, langued gules, grasping and breaking with its forepaws a beech bough proper. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | River class frigate |
| Displacement: | 1,445 long tons (1,468 t/1,618 S/T) 2,110 L/T (2,140 t/2,360 S/T) (deep load) |
| Length: | 283 feet (86.26 m) p/p 301.25 feet (91.82 m)o/a |
| Beam: | 36.5 feet (11.13 m) |
| Draught: | 9 feet (2.74 m); 13 feet (3.96 m) (deep load) |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37.0 km/h) 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h) (turbine ships) |
| Range: | 646 L/T (656 t/724 S/T) oil fuel; 7,500 nautical miles (13,890 km) at 15 knots (27.8 km/h) |
| Complement: | 157 |
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HMCS Antigonish (K661) was a River class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1944-1946 and as a Prestonian class frigate from 1957-1966.
Built by Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt, she was commissioned into the RCN on 4 July 1944 with the pennant K661. She was placed in reserve in 1946 and reactivated in 1947 for use as a training ship until 1954. She underwent conversion to a Prestonian class frigate in 1956-1957 and was recommissioned with pennant 301 on 12 October 1957.
She was paid off by the RCN in December 1966.
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