HMCS Ungava (J149)

For other ships of the same name, see HMCS Ungava.
Career (Canada)
Name: Ungava
Namesake: Ungava Bay
Operator: Royal Canadian Navy
Builder: North Vancouver Ship Repairs Ltd., North Vancouver
Laid down: 24 April 1940
Launched: 9 October 1940
Commissioned: 5 September 1941
Decommissioned: 3 April 1946
Identification: pennant number: J149
Honours and
awards:		 Atlantic 1941-44,[1] Gulf of St. Lawrence 1944[2]
Fate: Scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type:Bangor-class minesweeper
Displacement:672 tons
Length:180 ft (55 m)
Beam:28.5 ft (8.7 m)
Draught:8 ft (2.4 m)
Propulsion:Single shaft, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 triple expansion steam engines, 2,400 ihp.
Speed:16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement:77
Armament:1 × QF 12-pounder (3 inch (76 mm)) gun

1 × QF 2-pounder (40 mm) guns
2 × QF 20 mm Oerlikon guns

2 × Mk.II DC throwers, 4 × DC rails, 40 depth charges

HMCS Ungava was a Bangor-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She saw action in the Battle of the Atlantic and the Battle of the St. Lawrence. Following the war she was scrapped. She was named for Ungava Bay.

Ungava was ordered as part of the 1939-40 shipbuilding programme.[3] She was laid down on 24 April 1940 by North Vancouver Ship Repairs Ltd. at North Vancouver and launched on 9 October 1940.[4] She was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on 5 September 1941 at Vancouver.[5]

Service history

After working up, Ungava was assigned to Halifax Force. She remained with the unit until May 1943 when she was ordered to join Gaspe Force. Later that year in December, she transferred back to Halifax Force and served with that unit for another five months. In May 1944 she transferred to Sydney Force, spending the rest of the year with that unit before returning to Halifax Force in February 1945.[5]

Ungava served with the Halifax Force until April 1945, when she underwent a refit at Liverpool which lasted until May 1945. After returning from workups, she was used for miscellaneous duties along the eastern coast until being paid off on 3 April 1946.[5] She was sold to T. Harris of Barber, New Jersey for scrapping.[6]

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References

Footnotes
  1. ↑ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  2. ↑ "Battle Honours 2". Veterans Affairs Canada. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  3. ↑ McClearn, Sandy (2007). "Bangor Class". hazegray.org. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
  4. ↑ "HMCS Ungava (J 149)". uboat.net. Retrieved 8 June 2014.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Macpherson, Ken; Barrie, Ron (2002). The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces, 1910-2002 (3 ed.). St. Catharines: Vanwell Publishing Limited. p. 176. ISBN 1551250721.
  6. ↑ Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.
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