Topic: RCN
HMCS Skeena, image from Wikipedia
The Royal Canadian Navy (May 1939)
Ottawa Citizen, 12 May 1939
Western Division, Esquimalt
Destroyers
- Fraser (ex H.M.S. Crescent)
- Ottawa (ex H.M.S. Crusader)
- St. Laurent (ex H.M.S. Cygnet)
- Restigouche (ex H.M.S. Comet)
Built in 1930. Displacement 1375 tons. Turbines S.H.P. 36,000. Speed 35.5 knots. Fout 4.7-inch guns, one 3-inch, seven smaller guns, eight torpedo tubes, mine dropping equipment.
Minesweepers
Length, 160 feet, one 4-inch gun.
Eastern Division, Halifax
Destroyers
Built 1929. Displacement 1337 tons. Turbines S.H.P. 32,000. Speed 35 knots. Fout 4.7-inch guns, seven smaller guns, eight torpedo tubes.
Minesweepers
Length, 160 feet, one 4-inch gun.
To arrive one flotilla tender purchased from the Royal Navy, 1939.
To be built in Canada, motor torpedo boats and a training schooner.
Personnel
R.C.N. Officers 137. men, 1582.
R.C.N.V.R. Officers 123. men, 1344.
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