HMCS Moresby (MSA 112)

History
Canada
Name:	Moresby
Namesake:	Moresby Island
Builder:	Allied Shipbuilders Ltd., Vancouver
Launched:	1973
Acquired:	March 1998
Commissioned:	7 May 1989
Decommissioned:	10 March 2000
Homeport:	CFB Halifax
Identification:	MSA 112
Fate:	sold 2002
Status:	now tug Ramco Express in Panama
Notes:	Formerly merchant Joyce Tide.
General characteristics
Class & type:	Anticosti-class minesweeper
Displacement:	1,076 tons (2,200 tons deep load)
Length:	58.3 m (191 ft)
Beam:	13.1 m (43 ft)
Draught:	5.2 m (17 ft)
Propulsion:	4 x NOHAB Polar diesels (4,200 bhp), 2 shafts, Kort nozzles auxiliary propulsion=1 x 550 bhp azimuth bow thruster
Speed:	13.5 kn (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph)
Endurance:	12,000 nmi (22,000 km; 14,000 mi)
Complement:	23

HMCS Moresby was an Anticosti-class minesweeper that served in the Canadian Forces from 1989-2000.

Service history

Moresby was built in 1973 by Allied Shipbuilders Ltd., Vancouver as the oil rig logistics support vessel Jean Tide. She was acquired by Maritime Command (MARCOM) in 1989 and commissioned with pennant number 112.

She was named for Moresby Island,^[1] which in turn is named for Fairfax Moresby, former Commander-in-Chief of Pacific Station at Esquimalt Royal Navy Dockyard.

After the Kingston-class was commissioned, Moresby was identified as surplus and decommissioned in 2000 along with sister ship Anticosti.

Sold in 2000, she was re-commissioned under several names:

• Echo Star 2000 to 2002 and 2002 to 2004, 2005
• Malbun to 2002,
• Silver Star 2004 to 2005, 2005-2007
• Ramco 1 2007
• Ramco Express since 2007

Moresby is now a commercial tug in Panama.^[2]

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