HMCS St. Boniface (J332)

Career (Canada)
Name: St. Boniface
Namesake: Saint Boniface, Winnipeg
Operator: Royal Canadian Navy
Builder: Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company Ltd.
Laid down: 21 May 1942
Launched: 5 November 1942
Commissioned: 9 October 1943
Decommissioned: 25 September 1946
Identification: J332
Honours and
awards:		 Atlantic 1944-45[1]
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 St. Boniface was an Algerine-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War.

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Notes

  1. ↑ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 18 September 2013.