HMCS Vegreville (J257)

Career (Canada)
Namesake: Town of Vegreville
Builder: Canadian Vickers Ltd.
Laid down: 2 June 1941
Launched: 7 October 1941
Commissioned: 10 December 1941
Decommissioned: 6 June 1945
Honours and
awards:
Gulf of St. Lawrence 1942, Atlantic 1944
Fate: Scrapped
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 ft (2.4 m)
Propulsion: Single shaft, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 triple expansion steam engines, 2,400 ihp.
Speed: 16 knots
Complement: 77
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 Vegreville (J257) was a Bangor-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II.

The Vegreville was mined in the English Channel off France on 6 June 1945 and was declared a total constructive loss and beyond economical repair. She was scrapped in 1947.

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