HMCS Margaree (H49)
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.jpg/300px-HMS_Diana_(H49).jpg) HMCS Margaree as HMS Diana before transfer to the RCN in 1940 |
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| Class and type: | D class destroyer |
| Name: | HMS Diana |
| Ordered: | 2 February 1931 |
| Builder: | Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Hebburn-on-Tyne |
| Laid down: | 20 June 1931 |
| Launched: | 16 June 1932 |
| Commissioned: | 21 December 1932 |
| Out of service: | Transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy on 6 September 1940 |
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| Name: | HMCS Margaree |
| Commissioned: | 6 September 1940 |
| Fate: | Sunk in a collision on 22 October 1940 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 1,375 tons |
| Length: | 329 ft (100 m) |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10 m) |
| Draught: | 12 ft 6 in (3.8 m) |
| Propulsion: | Three x Admiralty 3-drum water tube boilers Parsons geared steam turbines 36,000 shp on two shafts |
| Speed: | 36 kt (66.7 km/h) |
| Range: | 5,500 nmi at 15 kt |
| Complement: | 145 |
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HMCS Margaree was purchased by the Royal Canadian Navy as a replacement for HMCS Fraser, lost in an earlier accident. She was commissioned into the RCN on 6 September 1940, with Lieutenant Commander J.W. Roy, RCN as commanding officer. She had previously served with the Royal Navy as HMS Diana (H49).
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[edit] Royal Navy service
At the start of World War II, Diana was with the 21st Destroyer Flotilla, on the China Station. Upon completion of repairs at Hong Kong, she was transferred to the Home Fleet. On 21 February 1940, Diana rescued 35 survivors of the British merchant ship M.V. Loch Maddy which had been torpedoed and damaged south-southwest of Rockall.[1]
[edit] Royal Canadian Navy service
On 20 October 1940, she left Londonderry Port, Northern Ireland as the sole escort of a small convoy, on her way to join a larger one for the Atlantic crossing to Halifax. Margaree was lost on 22 October 1940 when she collided with the freighter MV Port Fairy [2] in rough weather about 300 miles (483 km) west of Ireland; her captain, four officers and 136 sailors were lost.
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[edit] References and notes
Dan van der Vat The Atlantic Campaign, , ISBN 0-06-015967-7
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