HMCS Cap de la Madeleine (K663)
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| Career (Canada) |  Royal Canadian Navy |
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| Namesake: | Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec |
| Builder: | Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City |
| Laid down: | 5 Nov 1943 |
| Launched: | 13 May 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 30 Sep 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 25 Nov 1945 |
| Badge: | Blazon Azure, on an Indian tomahawk and woodsman's axe in saltire argent, an annulet on which a shepherd's crook erect or, and over all within the annulet a lozenge argent charged with an anchor azure. |
| 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 Cap de la Madeleine (K663) was a River class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1944-1945 and as a Prestonian class frigate from 1954-1965.
Built by Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City, she was commissioned into the RCN on 30 September 1944 with the pennant K663. She was placed in reserve in 1945 and reactivated in 1954. She underwent conversion to a Prestonian class frigate and was recommissioned with pennant 317 on 7 December 1954.
She was paid off by the RCN in May 1965.
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