HMCS Arleux

HMCS Arleux as a gate vessel at Halifax, 1940
Career (Canada)
Name: Arleux
Namesake: Battle of Arleux
Builder: Canadian Vickers, Montreal, Quebec
Launched: 9 August 1917
Commissioned: 5 June 1918
Decommissioned: 30 June 1922
Commissioned: 13 September 1939
Decommissioned: 15 February 1946
Fate: Foundered off White Head Bay, Nova Scotia, August 1948
General characteristics
Class and type:Battle class naval trawler
Displacement:357 long tons (363 t)
Length:130 ft (40 m)
Beam:25 ft (7.6 m)
Draught:13 ft (4.0 m)
Propulsion:Single screw steam triple expansion, 480 ihp (360 kW)
Speed:10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Armament:1 × QF 12-pounder (76-mm) gun

HMCS Arleux was one of twelve Battle class Naval trawlers used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). Named after the April 1917 Battle of Arleux, she was built by Canadian Vickers, at Montreal, and commissioned on 5 June 1918. After the First World War, Arleux was transferred to the Department of Marine and Fisheries, but remained notionally a naval vessel until June 1922. While Arleux was a fisheries patrol vessel, she often served as a mother ship to the east coast's winter haddock fishing fleet. Reacquired by the RCN and re-commissioned in September 1939, Arleux was designated Gate Vessel 16 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1940. Sold in February 1946, Arleux foundered in August 1948 off White Head Bay, Nova Scotia.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Ken Macpherson and John Burgess, The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910-1993 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships, (St. Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell Pub., 1994), 22. ISBN 0-920277-91-8

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