HMCS Messines

Messines (right) and Ypres (center) under construction in Toronto in 1917
Career (Canada)
Name: Messines
Namesake: Battle of Messines
Builder: Polson Iron Works Limited, Toronto, Ontario
Launched: 16 June 1917
Commissioned: 13 November 1917
Decommissioned: 1920
Renamed: Re-designated Lightship No. 3
Fate: Scrapped, 1962
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 × QF 12-pounder (76-mm) gun

HMCS Messines was one of twelve Battle class naval trawlers used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). Named after the Battle of Messines, she was built by Polson Iron Works, in Toronto, Ontario. Commissioned on 13 November 1917, she was handed over to the Department of Marine and Fisheries following her 1920 decommissioning. Converted to a lightship, like sister ships HMCS St. Eloi, HMCS St. Julien, and HMCS Vimy, Messines was designated Lightship No. 3, and was ultimately scrapped in 1962.[1][2]

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), 24. ISBN 0-920277-91-8
  2. Charles D. Maginley and Bernard Collin, The Ships of Canada's Marine Services, St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing, 2001, 113. ISBN 1-55125-070-5

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