| Career (Canada) | Royal Canadian Navy |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMCS PENETANG |
| Namesake: | Penetanguishene, Ontario |
| Builder: | Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon |
| Yard number: | 557 |
| Laid down: | 22 September 1943 |
| Launched: | 6 July 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 19 October 1944 |
| Recommissioned: | 01 June 1954 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 November 1945 |
| Renamed: | Draug |
| Refit: | to Prestonian Class (316) |
| Honours and awards: |
Atlantic, 1944-1945 |
| Fate: | broken up in Oslo in 1966 |
| Notes: | Colours:White and blue |
| Badge: | Blazon Azure, an hourglass framed or, with sands argent, the upper cup nearly full. |
| 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 Penetang (K676) was a River class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1944-1945 and as a Prestonian class frigate from 1954-1956.
Built by Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon, she was commissioned into the RCN on 19 October 1944 with the pennant K676.
She was placed in reserve in 1945 and reactivated in 1953. She underwent conversion to a Prestonian class frigate from 1953-1954 and was recommissioned with pennant 316 on 1 June 1954.
Penetang was paid off by the RCN on 25 January 1956 and transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy where she was renamed HNoMS Draug (K676). She was purchased outright in 1959 and was decommissioned and scrapped by the RNoN in 1966.
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