HMCS Norsyd
HMCS Norsyd
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History | |
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Canada | |
Name | HMCS Norsyd |
Namesake | North Sydney, Nova Scotia |
Ordered | 2 January 1942 |
Builder | Morton Engineering and Dry Dock Co., Quebec City |
Laid down | 14 January 1943 |
Launched | 31 July 1943 |
Commissioned | 22 December 1943 |
Decommissioned | 25 June 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K520 |
Honours and awards | |
Fate | Sold for mercantile use |
Israel | |
Name | INS Haganah |
Acquired | 1948 |
Decommissioned | 1954 |
Identification | K-20 |
Fate | Scrapped 1956 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette (modified) |
Displacement | 1,015 long tons (1,031 t; 1,137 short tons) |
Length | 208 ft (63.40 m)o/a |
Beam | 33 ft (10.06 m) |
Draught | 11 ft (3.35 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
Range | 7,400 nautical miles (13,705 km) at 10 knots (18.5 km/h) |
Complement | 90 |
Sensors and processing systems |
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Armament |
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HMCS Norsyd was a modified Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She served primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for North Sydney, Nova Scotia, her name being a contraction of the city's name. This was due to a naming conflict with a Royal Australian Navy vessel.[3] After the war she served as a merchant ship and then as a corvette in the Israeli Navy.
Background
Flower-class corvettes like Norsyd serving with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War were different from earlier and more traditional sail-driven corvettes.
Corvettes commissioned by the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War were named after communities for the most part, to better represent the people who took part in building them. This idea was put forth by Admiral Percy W. Nelles. Sponsors were commonly associated with the community for which the ship was named. Royal Navy corvettes were designed as open sea escorts, while Canadian corvettes were developed for coastal auxiliary roles which was exemplified by their minesweeping gear. Eventually the Canadian corvettes would be modified to allow them to perform better on the open seas.[10]
Construction
Norsyd was ordered 2 January 1942 as part of the 1942-43 modified Flower-class building programme. This programme was known as the Increased Endurance. Many changes were made, all from lessons that had been learned in previous versions of the Flower-class. The bridge was made a full deck higher and built to naval standards instead of the more civilian-like bridges of previous versions. The platform for the 4-inch main gun was raised to minimize the amount of spray over it and to provide a better field of fire. It was also connected to the wheelhouse by a wide platform that was now the base for the
Other superficial changes to this version include an upright funnel and pressurized boiler rooms which eliminated the need for hooded ventilators around the base of the funnel. This changed the silhouette of the corvette and made it more difficult for submariners to tell which way the corvette was laying.[10]
Norsyd was laid down by Morton Engineering and Dry Dock Co. at Quebec City, Quebec 14 January 1943 and was launched 31 July 1943. She was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy 22 December 1943 at Quebec City.[11] She was diverted to Saint John, New Brunswick en route to Halifax for fitting out. This was not completed until March 1944. In May 1945, Norsyd began the only refit of her war career at Halifax. It was completed in June 1945.[3]
Service history
After working up in
She transferred to the
Norsyd was
In 1948 she was taken over and rearmed by the nascent Israeli Navy and renamed Haganah. During her service with the Israeli Navy, she fought in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.[13][14] During Operation Yoav, she, alongside INS Wedgwood, another corvette, engaged Egyptian naval forces and shore batteries. They did little damage and suffered enough damage that they had to be sent back to Haifa for repairs.[13][14] She was paid off and broken up in 1956.[3]
Notes
- ^ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
- ^ "Royal Canadian Warships – The Battle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence – Second World War". Veterans Affairs Canada. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
- ^ ISBN 0-00216-856-1.
- ^ Ossian, Robert. "Complete List of Sailing Vessels". The Pirate King. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ Fitzsimons, Bernard, ed. (1978). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons & Warfare. Vol. 11. London: Phoebus. pp. 1137–1142.
- ISBN 0-517-67963-9.
- ISBN 0-8117-3275-4.
- ISBN 0-87021-913-8.
- ^ ISBN 0-87021-450-0.
- ^ ISBN 1-55125-052-7.
- ^ a b "HMCS Norsyd (K 540)". Uboat.net. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
- ^ "U-541". uboat.net. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
- ^ a b Tal, Eliezer (1964). Naval Operations in the War of Independence (in Hebrew). Ma'arakhot Publishing.
- ^ a b Wallach, Jehuda ed. (1978). "Security". Carta's Atlas of Israel (in Hebrew). Vol. First Years 1948–1961. Carta Jerusalem.
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References
- Hazegray. "Revised Flower Class". Canadian Navy of Yesterday and Today. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
- Ready, Aye, Ready. "HMCS Norsyd". Retrieved 22 September 2013.
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