HMCS Miramichi (J169)

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Career (Canada)
Namesake: Miramichi River
Builder: Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd., Vancouver
Laid down: November 3, 1940
Launched: September 2, 1941
Commissioned: November 26, 1941
Decommissioned: October 24, 1945
Motto: Loyal a la mort (Loyal unto death)
Fate: Sold
Badge: Blazon On a field of birch bark proper, a pile barry wavy of ten argent and azure and overall an equilateral triangle, apex to the chief gules, charged with a porcupine.
General characteristics
Class and type: Bangor Class Minesweeper
Displacement: 672 tons
Length: 180 feet (54.9 m)
Beam: 28.5 feet (8.7 m)
Draught: 8 feet (2.4 m)
Propulsion: Single shaft, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 triple expansion steam engines, 2,400 ihp.
Speed: 16 knots
Complement: 83 (6 Officers, 77 Ratings)
Armament:
Aircraft carried: none

HMCS Miramichi (J169) was a Bangor Class Minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II.

The Miramichi was of the 1939-1940 construction period, and was the first ship to bear this name. Built by Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd., she was commissioned in November 1941 and served in the Royal Canadian Navy until she was paid off 24 October 1945 and sold to the Union Steamship Co. of British Columbia in 1946, as was HMCS Chignecto (J160) and HMCS Courtenay (J262).[1][2]

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