HMCS Beaver (S10)
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Career (Canada) | |
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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.