| Career (Canada) | Royal Canadian Navy |
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| Namesake: | Cap de la Madeleine, Quebec |
| Builder: | Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City |
| Laid down: | 5 November 1943 |
| Launched: | 13 May 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 30 September 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 25 November 1945 |
| Honours and awards: |
Atlantic 1945 |
| Badge: | Blazon Azure, on an Indian tomahawk and woodsman's axe in saltire argent, an annulet on which a shepherd's crook erect or, and over all within the annulet a lozenge argent charged with an anchor azure. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | River class frigate |
| Displacement: | 1,445 long tons (1,468 t; 1,618 ST) 2,110 long tons (2,140 t; 2,360 ST) (deep load) |
| Length: | 283 ft (86.26 m) p/p 301.25 ft (91.82 m)o/a |
| Beam: | 36.5 ft (11.13 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft (2.74 m); 13 ft (3.96 m) (deep load) |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37.0 km/h) 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h) (turbine ships) |
| Range: | 646 long tons (656 t; 724 ST) oil fuel; 7,500 nautical miles (13,890 km) at 15 knots (27.8 km/h) |
| Complement: | 157 |
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HMCS Cap de la Madeleine (K663) was a River class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1944-1945 and as a Prestonian class frigate from 1954-1965.
Built by Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City, she was commissioned into the RCN on 30 September 1944 with the pennant K663. She was placed in reserve in 1945 and reactivated in 1954. She underwent conversion to a Prestonian class frigate and was recommissioned with pennant 317 on 7 December 1954.
She was paid off by the RCN in May 1965.
I served in HMCS Cap de la Madelaine in 1964. At that time she was armed with Twin 4.7-inch (120 mm) guns in A turret, 2 - 40mm Bofors in single mounts on each beam, twin 40mm Bofors in Y turret, and 6 Squid anti-submarine mortars in a quarter deck well. The 20mm Orlikon mounts, Hedgehog thrower and the depth charge racks had been removed.
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