HMCS Miramichi (J169)
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| Career (Canada) |
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| Namesake: |
Miramichi River |
| Builder: |
Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd., Vancouver |
| Laid down: |
3 November 1940 |
| Launched: |
2 September 1941 |
| Commissioned: |
26 November 1941 |
| Decommissioned: |
24 October 1945 |
| Motto: |
Loyal à 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 ft (54.9 m) |
| Beam: |
28.5 ft (8.7 m) |
| Draught: |
8 ft (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: |
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| 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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