HMCS Charlottetown (K244) (River class frigate)
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| Career (Canada) |  Royal Canadian Navy |
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| Namesake: | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island |
| Builder: | Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon |
| Laid down: | 26 Jan 1943 |
| Launched: | 16 Sep 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 28 Apr 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 25 Mar 1947 |
| Fate: | Scuttled in 1947 for use as a breakwater at Oyster Bay. |
| 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 Charlottetown (K244) was a River class frigate that served the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II.
Charlottetown's pennant number K244 is unique in that it was also used for the HMCS Charlottetown, a Flower class corvette.
Charlottetown was constructed at Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon and commissioned into the RCN at Quebec City on 28 April 1944. She visited her namesake city of Charlottetown on 22 May 1944 en route to Halifax.
She proceeded to Bermuda on 18 June for a 1-month work-up period for her new crew. She returned to Halifax and was assigned to Escort Group 16. EG-16 moved from Halifax to Londonderry, Northern Ireland on 7 March 1945 and later Portsmouth, England. Charlottetown escorted two convoys to and from Gibraltar and left Londonderry in mid-June for HMCS Protector in Sydney where she completed a tropicalization refit in preparation for service with Operation Downfall in the Pacific War. She completed the refit in Halifax on 28 February 1946 after the Surrender of Japan and left on 3 March for new duties at Esquimalt. She spent the rest of 1946 training crew with the University Naval Training Divisions at the Royal Canadian Naval College in Royal Roads.
She was paid off from the RCN on 25 March 1947 at Esquimalt. She was sold the same year and scuttled for use as a breakwater at Oyster Bay, British Columbia.
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