HMCS Festubert

HMCS Festubert
Career (Canada)
Name: Festubert
Namesake: Battle of Festubert
Builder: Polson Iron Works, Toronto
Launched: 2 August 1917
Commissioned: 13 November 1917
Recommissioned: 1 May 1923
Decommissioned: 1934
Recommissioned: 1939
Decommissioned: 17 April 1945
Fate: Sold 1946, scuttled 30 June 1971
General characteristics
Class and type:Battle-class naval trawler
Displacement:320 long tons (330 t)
Length:130 ft (40 m)
Beam:23 ft 6 in (7.16 m)
Draught:13 ft 6 in (4.11 m)
Speed:10 knots (12 mph; 19 km/h)
Armament:1 × 12-pounder gun

HMCS Festubert was one of twelve Battle class naval trawlers used by the Royal Canadian Navy. Built at Polson Iron Works in Toronto, Festubert was commissioned on 13 November 1917. Laid up on the east coast after the end of the war, she was recommissioned for training and other duties in May 1923, but was again placed in reserve in 1934. During the Second World War, Festubert, designated Gate Vessel 17, was one of the gate vessels in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sold in 1946 and renamed Inverleigh, on 30 June 1971 she was scuttled off Burgeo, Newfoundland.[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), 23. ISBN 0-920277-91-8

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