HMCS New Liskeard (J397)

Career (Canada)
Name: New Liskeard
Builder: Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company Ltd.
Laid down: 7 August 1942
Launched: 14 January 1944
Commissioned: 21 November 1944
Decommissioned: 4 August 1946
Identification: J397
Honours and
awards:
Atlantic, 1945
General characteristics
Class and type:Algerine-class Minesweeper
Displacement:990 tons
Length:68.6 (225 ft)
Beam:10.8 (35.5 ft)
Draught:2.6 (8.5 ft)
Propulsion:2 3-drum Yarrow style water tube all welded boilers, 2 1250 HP triple expansion engines.
Speed:16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Crew:107
Armament:1 4" HA single, 4 20mm twin guns, 1 Hedgehog ASW mortar, depth charges

HMCS New Liskeard was an Algerine-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War.

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