HMCS Regina, circa 1942-1943 |
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| Career (Canada) | Royal Canadian Navy |
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| Namesake: | Regina, Saskatchewan |
| Builder: | Marine Industries. Ltd., Sorel |
| Laid down: | 22 March 1941 |
| Launched: | 14 October 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 22 January 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | 8 August 1944 |
| Honours and awards: |
Atlantic 1942-44, Gulf of St. Lawrence 1942, Mediterranean 1943, Normandy 1944, English Channel 1944 |
| Fate: | Torpedoed and sunk on 8 August 1944 by an Unterseeboot U-667 off Trevose Head at 50-42N, 05-03W. 30 crew member were killed. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Flower-class corvette |
| 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)(18.4mph) |
| Range: | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h)(13.8mph) |
| Complement: | 85 |
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HMCS Regina (K234) was a Royal Canadian Navy Flower-class corvette which took part in convoy escort duties during World War II.
She was laid down at Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel on 22 March 1941 and launched on 14 October of that year. She was commissioned into the RCN on 22 January 1942. On 3 July 1942 Regina rescued 25 survivors from the crew of the American merchant SS Alexander Macomb which was torpedoed and sunk by U-215 east of Cape Cod at 41-48N, 66-35W. On 8 February 1943, Regina attacked and sank the Italian submarine Avorio off Philippeville, Algeria.
On 8 August 1944, Regina was torpedoed and sunk by U-667 8 nautical miles (15 km) north of Trevose Head on the coast of Cornwall at while rescuing survivors of the American merchant Ezra Weston. The warship sank in 28 seconds. 30 of the ship's crew were killed. The wreck of Regina and the Ezra Weston rest in 60 metres (200 ft) of water. The exploration of these wrecks by a crew of researchers was the subject of an episode of the television documentary series "Deep Sea Mysteries".[1]
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