Prestonian-class frigate
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Class overview | |
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Operators: | Royal Canadian Navy |
Preceded by: | River-class frigate |
Succeeded by: | St. Laurent-class destroyer |
In commission: | 28 August 1953 - 15 September 1967 |
Planned: | 21 |
Completed: | 21 |
Retired: | 21 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement: | 2,360 t (2,360.0 t) (full load) |
Length: | 301.25 ft (91.82 m)o/a |
Beam: | 36.5 ft (11.13 m) |
Draught: | 12 ft (3.66 m) |
Propulsion: | 2 x Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) |
Speed: | 19 knots (35.2 km/h) |
Complement: | 140 |
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Aviation facilities: | HMCS Buckingham (FFE 314) fitted with flight deck for helicopter tests. |
The Prestonian-class ocean, anti-submarine escort frigate was a class of 21 frigates that served with the Royal Canadian Navy from 1953-1967.
They were converted from mothballed River-class frigates that had been placed in reserve following the end of World War II. The first vessel to be reactivated and undergo refit was Prestonian which was recommissioned on 28 August 1953. The class did not use sequential pennant numbers.
Ships
Ship | Pennant Number | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Commissioned | Paid off | Fate |
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Antigonish | HMCSFFE 301 (formerly K661) |
Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt | 2 October 1943 | 10 February 1944 | 12 October 1957 | 30 November 1966 | |
Beacon Hill | HMCSFFE 303 (formerly K407) |
Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt | 16 July 1943 | 6 November 1943 | 21 December 1957 | 15 September 1967 | |
Buckingham | HMCSFFE 314 (formerly K685) |
Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon | 11 November 1943 | 28 April 1944 | 25 June 1954 | 23 March 1965 | |
Cap de la Madeleine | HMCSFFE 317 (formerly K663) |
Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City | 5 November 1943 | 13 May 1944 | 7 December 1954 | 15 May 1965 | |
Fort Erie | HMCSFFE 312 (formerly K670) |
Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon | 3 November 1943 | 27 May 1944 | 17 April 1956 | 26 March 1965 | |
Inch Arran | HMCSFFE 308 (formerly K667) |
Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon | 25 October 1943 | 6 June 1944 | 23 August 1954 | 23 June 1965 | |
Jonquiere | HMCSFFE 318 (formerly K318) |
Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon | 26 January 1943 | 28 October 1943 | 20 September 1954 | 23 September 1966 | |
La Hulloise | HMCSFFE 305 (formerly K668) |
Canadian Vickers, Montreal | 10 August 1943 | 29 October 1943 | 9 October 1957 | 16 July 1965 | |
Lanark | HMCSFFE 321 (formerly K669) |
Canadian Vickers, Montreal | 25 September 1943 | 10 December 1943 | 15 April 1956 | 19 March 1965 | |
Lauzon | HMCSFFE 322 (formerly K371) |
Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon | 2 July 1943 | 10 June 1944 | 12 December 1953 | 24 May 1963 | |
New Glasgow | HMCSFFE 315 (formerly K320) |
Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt | 2 December 1942 | 23 June 1943 | 30 January 1954 | 30 January 1967 | |
New Waterford | HMCSFFE 304 (formerly K321) |
Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt | 17 December 1943 | 3 July 1943 | 31 January 1958 | 22 December 1966 | |
Outremont | HMCSFFE 310 (formerly K322) |
Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Quebec City | 18 November 1942 | 3 July 1943 | 2 September 1955 | 7 June 1965 | |
Penetang | HMCSFFE 316 (formerly K676) |
Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon | 22 September 1943 | 6 July 1944 | 1 June 1954 | 25 January 1956 | |
Prestonian | HMCSFFE 307 (formerly K662) |
Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon | 20 July 1943 | 22 June 1944 | 22 August 1953 | 24 April 1956 | |
Ste. Therese | HMCSFFE 309 (formerly K366) |
Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon | 18 May 1943 | 16 October 1943 | 21 January 1955 | 30 January 1967 | |
Stettler | HMCSFFE 311 (formerly K681) |
Canadian Vickers, Montreal | 31 May 1943 | 9 October 1943 | 2 February 1954 | 31 August 1966 | |
Stone Town | HMCSFFE 302 (formerly K531) |
Canadian Vickers, Montreal | 17 November 1943 | 28 March 1944 | 21 July 1944 | 13 November 1945 | Transferred to Department of Transport, serving as a weather monitoring ship in the North Pacific, 1952-1967. Sold, 1968. |
Sussexvale | HMCSFFE 313 (formerly K683) |
Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon | 15 November 1943 | 12 July 1944 | 8 August 1955 | 30 November 1966 | |
Swansea | HMCSFFE 306 (formerly K328) |
Yarrows Ltd., Esquimalt | 15 July 1942 | 19 December 1942 | 14 November 1957 | 14 October 1966 | |
Toronto | HMCSFFE 319 (formerly K538) |
Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon | 10 May 1943 | 18 September 1943 | 26 November 1953 | 14 April 1956 | |
Victoriaville | HMCSFFE 320 (formerly K684) |
Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon | 2 December 1943 | 23 June 1944 | 25 September 1959 | December 1966 | Decommissioned as a Prestonian-class frigate, December 1966; recommissioned as diving tender HMCS Granby. Finally decommissioned, 31 December 1973. |
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