HMCS Digby (J267)

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HMCS Digby (J267)
Career (Canada)
Namesake: Digby, Nova Scotia
Commissioned: 26 July 1942
Recommissioned: 1953
Decommissioned: 1958
Honours and
awards:		 Atlantic 1942-44,[1] Gulf of St. Lawrence 1942, 1944.[2]
General characteristics
Class & type: Bangor-class minesweeper
Displacement: 592 tons
Propulsion:

Twin shaft;

2 H&W diesel engines, 2,400 bhp;
Speed: 15.5 knots

HMCS Digby (J267) was a Bangor-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy. She was commissioned on 26 July 1942 and paid off on 31 July 1945. She was recommissioned from 1953-1958.[3]

She was used, along with HMCS Granby, in 1953 on Lake Ontario to test the Royal Canadian Navy's DATAR system.[4]

See also

  • List of ships of the Canadian Navy

References

  1. ↑ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 18 Sep 2013. 
  2. ↑ "Battle Honours 2". Veterans Affairs Canada. Retrieved 18 Sep 2013. 
  3. ↑ Haze Gray and Underway
  4. ↑ Ferranti-Packard: Pioneers in Canadian Electrical Manufacturing, Norman R. Ball, John N. Vardalas, McGill-Queen's Press, 1993



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