HMCS Cape Scott (ARE 101)

Career (UK)
Name: Beachy Head
Namesake: Beachy Head, East Sussex
Builder: Burrard Dry Dock, Vancouver
Laid down: 8 June 1944
Launched: 27 September 1944
In service: 1944
Out of service: 1952
Fate: Loaned to Netherlands, 1947
Sold to Canada, 1952
Career (Netherlands)
Name: Vulkaan
Acquired: 1947
In service: 1947
Out of service: 1950
Fate: Returned to UK, 1950
Career (Canada)
Name: Cape Scott
Namesake: Cape Scott
Acquired: 1952
Commissioned: 28 January 1959
Decommissioned: 1 July 1970
Out of service: 1975
Fate: Scrapped, 1978
General characteristics
Class and type:Cape class maintenance ship
Displacement:8,580 long tons (8,718 t)
Length:134.7 m (441 ft 11 in)
Beam:17.4 m (57 ft 1 in)
Draught:6.1 m (20 ft)
Propulsion:Oil-fired triple expansion steam engines, 2 boilers, 1 shaft, 2,500 hp (1,864 kW)
Speed:11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement:270
Aircraft carried:handling Sikorsky H04-S
Aviation facilities:helicopter pad

HMCS Cape Scott (ARE 101) was a Cape-class escort maintenance ship. She was built for the Royal Navy as HMS Beachy Head in 1944. She was loaned to the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1947 as HNLMS Vulkaan and returned to the Royal Navy in 1950. She was sold to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1952 and served until 1975, used as an alongside repair depot after decommissioning.

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