HMCS Malaspina
HMCS Malaspina underway
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History | |
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Canada | |
Name | Malaspina |
Builder | Dublin Dockyard, Dublin |
Laid down | 1913 |
Launched | 6 July 1913 |
Completed | August 1913 |
In service | 1913 |
Out of service | 1 December 1917 |
Fate | Transferred to Royal Canadian Navy 1917 |
Canada | |
Name | Malaspina |
Commissioned | 1 December 1917 |
Decommissioned | 31 March 1920 |
Recommissioned | 6 September 1939 |
Decommissioned | 24 January 1945 |
Fate | Sold for scrap, 1946 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Patrol vessel |
Tonnage | 392 GRT |
Length | 162.4 ft (49.5 m) pp. |
Beam | 27.1 ft (8.3 m) |
Draught | 13.1 ft (4.0 m) |
Propulsion | 1 screw, triple expansion steam engine , 1,350 ihp (1,007 kW) |
Speed | 14.5 knots (27 km/h) |
Complement | 33 |
HMCS Malaspina was a Canadian government fisheries patrol vessel pressed into service with the Royal Canadian Navy in 1917 and again in 1939 and which therefore saw service during the First World War and Second World War. The vessel was constructed in 1913 in Dublin, Ireland and patrolled the fisheries along the West Coast of Canada.
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Description
Malaspina was designed as coastal patrol vessel. The vessel had a
Construction and career
The vessel's keel was laid down by Dublin Dockyard in Dublin, Ireland and the vessel was launched on 6 July 1913.[3] Malaspina was completed in August 1913.[2] The date on which Malaspina became a government ship differs between the sources, with Macpherson & Barrie claiming the vessel joined in 1913 and Maginley & Collin, 1914.[1][4] Upon joining the government fleet, Malaspina became a fisheries patrol vessel on the West Coast of Canada.[4] After the First World War broke out, Malaspina and sister ship Galiano alternated between naval and civic duties along the Pacific coast, being retained as part of the government fleet.[1] This included performing examination duties at Esquimalt, British Columbia.[5] On 1 December 1917, Malaspina was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy, detailed with the duty of intercepting contraband in the Strait of Juan de Fuca.[1]
Following the First World War, Malaspina was
Citations
Sources
- Johnston, William; Rawling, William G.P.; Gimblett, Richard H. & MacFarlane, John (2010). The Seabound Coast: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1867–1939. Vol. 1. Toronto: Dundurn Press. ISBN 978-1-55488-908-2.
- Macpherson, Ken & Barrie, Ron (2002). The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910–2002 (Third ed.). St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing. ISBN 1-55125-072-1.
- Maginley, Charles D. & Collin, Bernard (2001). The Ships of Canada's Marine Services. St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing Limited. ISBN 1-55125-070-5.
- "Launches and Trial Trips". International Marine Engineering. 36 (August). New York—London: Marine Engineering, Inc.: 33 1913. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
- "Malaspina (1136044)". Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 15 February 2017.