| Career (Canada) | Royal Canadian Navy |
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| Namesake: | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island |
| Builder: | Kingston Shipbuilding Ltd., Kingston |
| Laid down: | 7 June 1941 |
| Launched: | 10 September 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 13 December 1941 |
| Decommissioned: | 11 September 1942 |
| Honours and awards: |
Atlantic, 1942; Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1942. |
| Fate: | Torpedoed and sunk on 11 September 1942 by U-517 while escorting convoy SQ-30 in the St. Lawrence River north of Cap Chat at 49-10N, 66-50W. 9 crew killed. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Flower-class corvette (original) |
| Displacement: | 925 long tons (940 t; 1,036 ST) |
| Length: | 205 ft (62.48 m)o/a |
| Beam: | 33 ft (10.06 m) |
| Draught: | 11.5 ft (3.51 m) |
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| Speed: | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
| Range: | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
| Complement: | 85 |
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HMCS Charlottetown (K244) was a Flower-class corvette that served the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II.
Charlottetown's pennant number K244 is unique in that it was also used for HMCS Charlottetown, a River-class frigate.
Charlottetown was laid down at Kingston Shipbuilding Ltd., Kingston on 11 June 1941 and launched on 10 September of that year. She was commissioned into the RCN at Quebec City on 13 December and arrived at her homeport of Halifax, Nova Scotia on 18 December 1941.
Charlottetown served with the Western Local Escort Force (WLEF) until mid-July 1942 when she was transferred to the Gulf Escort Force (GEF), serving in what is now referred to as the Battle of the St. Lawrence.
She escorted Quebec City - Sydney, Nova Scotia convoys until she was torpedoed and sunk on 11 September 1942 by U-517 6 nautical miles (11 km) off Cap Chat in the St. Lawrence River along the northern shore of the Gaspé Peninsula. Her Captain (Acting), Lt. Cmd. John W. Bonner, RCNR and 8 other crew were killed out of her crew of 64.
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