HMCS Beaver (S10)

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Career (Canada) Canadian Blue Ensign
Name: HMCS Beaver
Builder: Crescent Shipyard, Elizabeth, New Jersey
Launched: 1902
Commissioned: 1 April 1941
Decommissioned: 17 October 1944
General characteristics
Class and type: armed yacht
Displacement: 808 tons
Length: 260 ft (79 m)
Beam: 28 ft (8.5 m)
Draught: 13 ft (4.0 m)
Speed: 12 knots
Complement: 50
Armament: 1-4"
Notes: Formerly Aztec.

HMCS Beaver (S10) was an armed yacht that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN).

Initially carrying the pennant number S10 and later Z10, she was launched in 1902 in Elizabeth, New Jersey and was commissioned into the RCN on April 4, 1941. She was paid off on October 17, 1944.

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