| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMCS Kapuskasing |
| Builder: | Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Port Arthur, Ontario |
| Laid down: | 19 December 1942[1] |
| Launched: | 22 July 1943 |
| Commissioned: | 17 August 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 27 March 1946 |
| Recommissioned: | 1949 |
| Decommissioned: | 1972 |
| Honors and awards: |
Atlantic, 1944-1945 |
| Notes: | Colours: White and dark green |
| Badge: | Blazon pert, shakefork couped, barry wavy argent and azure[2] |
| General characteristics [3] | |
| Class and type: | Algerine-class minesweeper |
| Displacement: | 990 long tons (1,006 t) |
| Length: | 225 ft (69 m) |
| Beam: | 35 ft 6 in (10.82 m) |
| Draught: | 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × 3-drum Yarrow-type boilers 2 × 1,250 shp (932 kW) triple expansion engines 2 shafts |
| Speed: | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
| Complement: | 107 |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
Type 271 radar |
| Armament: | • 1 × single 4 in (100 mm) HA anti-aircraft gun • 4 × twin Oerlikon 20 mm cannon • 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar • Depth charges |
HMCS Kapuskasing (J326) was an Algerine-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. She was commissioned on August 17, 1944, and wore pennant J326 until she was decommissioned in March 1946. In 1949, she was recommissioned, and served with the Department of Mines under pennant 171 as a hydrographic survey ship until paid off in 1972. The ship was returned to the navy in 1972. On October 3, 1978, she was taken to sea and sunk as a naval target.[4]
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