HMCS Comox (MCB 146)
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Career (Canada) | Royal Canadian Navy |
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Name: | Comox |
Builder: | Victoria Machinery Depot, Victoria |
Laid down: | 8 June 1951 |
Launched: | 24 April 1952 |
Commissioned: | 2 April 1954 |
Decommissioned: | 11 September 1957 |
Fate: | Sold in 1957 to Turkey as Tirebolu. |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Bay class minesweeper |
Displacement: | 390 tons |
Length: | 152 ft (46 m) |
Beam: | 28 ft (8.5 m) |
Draught: | 8 ft (2.4 m) |
Propulsion: | diesel |
Speed: | 16 knots |
Complement: | 38 |
Armament: | 1 40mm Bofors |
HMCS Comox (MCB 146) was a Bay class minesweeper built for the Royal Canadian Navy.
Commissioned in 1954, she was named for Comox Habour, a bay in British Columbia.
She was decommissioned in 1957 and sold to Turkey as Tirebolu.
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