Bras d'Or (R-103)

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For other ships of the same name, see HMCS Bras d'Or.

Career (Canada)

Name:	Bras d'Or (R-103)
Namesake:	Bras d'Or Lake
Ordered:	September 1953
Builder:	Saunders-Roe, UK
Launched:	May 22, 1957
Commissioned:	June 26, 1957
In service:	1957–1973
Out of service:	1973
Homeport:	Halifax
Fate:	stored Museum ship at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa
General characteristics
Type:	Hydrofoil
Displacement:	17 t (17 long tons)
Length:	18.00 m (59 ft 1 in)
Propulsion:	2 Rolls Royce Griffon gasoline engines 1,500 hp @ 3000 rpm ^[1]
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement:	approx. 2+
Armament:	None
Notes:	Renamed Baddeck 1962

Bras d'Or (R-103) was a small experimental hydrofoil built for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) during the 1950s. It led to the development of HMCS Bras d'Or (FHE 400) in the late 1960s.

Built by Saunders-Roe from either a Saunder-Roe motor boat or Vosper PT boat hull, the Bras d'Or was built based on the prototype R-101 in service with the Royal Navy.^[2] Launched in 1957, it underwent trials off Wales in May and arrived in Canada in July.^[3] Acquired by the Royal Canadian Navy, it was never commissioned as a warship.

Bras d'Or (R-103) was renamed Baddeck in 1962 as the name "Bras d'Or" was to be provided to HMCS Bras d'Or (FHE 400). Baddeck retired from the Canadian Forces in 1973 and later acquired by the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa, Ontario.^[4] Baddeck remains in storage with her three foils detached and stored separately.

References

↑ http://www.foils.org/gallery/1950.HTM
↑ Fastest in the World: The Saga of Canada’s Revolutionary Hydrofoils, John Boileau, p49
↑ Fastest in the World: The Saga of Canada’s Revolutionary Hydrofoils, John Boileau, p53
↑ Fastest in the World: The Saga of Canada’s Revolutionary Hydrofoils, John Boileau, p53

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