Career (Canada) | |
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Namesake: | Township of Nipigon |
Builder: | Dufferin Shipbuilding Company |
Laid down: | 4 July 1940 |
Launched: | 1 October 1940 |
Commissioned: | 8 November 1941 |
Decommissioned: | 13 October 1945 |
Motto: | We Are One |
Honours and awards: |
Atlantic 1941-45, Gulf of St. Lawrence 1942, 1944 |
Fate: | Sold |
Badge: | Blazon Gules, in a base a bar fesswise wavy argent charged with a like barrulet azure, out of which leaping, two trout or, one to the dexter chief the other to the sinister chief. |
General characteristics | |
Class and type: | Bangor-class minesweeper |
Displacement: | 672 tons |
Length: | 180 ft (55 m) |
Beam: | 28.5 ft (8.7 m) |
Draught: | 8.3 ft (2.5 m) |
Propulsion: | Single shaft, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 triple expansion steam engines, 2,400 ihp. |
Speed: | 16.5 knots |
Complement: | 83 |
Armament: | 1 x QF 12 pounder (3 inch (76 mm)) gun, 1 x QF 2 pounder (40 mm) guns, 2 x QF 20 mm Oerlikon guns, 2 x Mk.II DC throwers, 4 x DC rails, 40 depth charges |
HMCS Nipigon (J154) was a Bangor-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II.
The Nipigon was commissioned in August 1941 and she wore pennant J154 until she was paid off in October 1945.
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