HMCS Comox (MCB 146)

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Career (Canada) Flag of Canada Royal Canadian Navy
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.