HMCS Brockville (J270)

Career (Canada)
Name: Brockville
Namesake: Brockville, Ontario
Builder: Marine Industries Limited, Sorel
Laid down: 9 December 1940
Launched: 20 June 1941
Commissioned: 19 September 1942
Decommissioned: 28 August 1945
Identification: pennant number:J270
Recommissioned: 5 April 1951
Decommissioned: 31 October 1958
Identification: pennant number:283
Honours and
awards:		 Atlantic 1943-44,[1] Gulf of St. Lawrence 1944.[2]
Fate: Broken up 1961
General characteristics
Class and type:Bangor-class minesweeper
Displacement:592 tons
Length:162 ft (49.4 m)
Beam:28 ft (8.5 m)
Draught:8.25 ft (2.51 m)
Propulsion:2 shafts, 9-cylinder diesel, 2,000 bhp (1,500 kW)
Speed:16 knots (30 km/h)
Complement:60
Armament:1 × QF 4 in (101.6 mm) gun

1 × 2-pounder Mark VIII

2 × twin 0.303 in (8 mm) machine guns

HMCS Brockville was a Bangor-class minesweeper that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She was used as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic and the Battle of the St. Lawrence. Following the war, the vessel was transferred to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and renamed Macleod. After five years service with them, the ship was reacquired the Royal Canadian Navy and recommissioned. She remained in service until 1958.

Brockville was ordered as part of the 1940-41 Bangor-class program.[3] The ship was laid down on 9 December 1940 by Marine Industries Limited at Sorel and launched 20 June 1941.[4] She was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on 19 September 1942 at Sorel.[3][4]

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Notes
  1. ↑ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  2. ↑ "Battle Honours 2". Veterans Affairs Canada. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Macpherson, Ken; Barrie, Ron (2002). The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces, 1910-2002 (3 ed.). St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing Limited. p. 185. ISBN 1551250721.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "HMCS Brockville (J 270)". uboat.net. Retrieved 25 August 2014.