HMCS Poundmaker
HMCS Poundmaker
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History | |
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Canada | |
Name | Poundmaker |
Namesake | Poundmaker Cree Nation, Saskatchewan |
Operator | Royal Canadian Navy |
Ordered | 1 February 1943 |
Builder | Canadian Vickers Ltd. Montreal, Quebec |
Laid down | 29 January 1944 |
Launched | 21 April 1944 |
Commissioned | 17 September 1944 |
Decommissioned | 25 November 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number:K 675 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1944–45[1] |
Fate | Transferred to Peru 1947 |
Peru | |
Name | Teniente Ferré |
Operator | Peruvian Navy |
Acquired | 1947 |
Out of service | 1966 |
Renamed | Ferré (1953) |
Identification | FE-3 (1959); FE-66 (1960) |
Fate | Discarded 1966 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | River-class frigate |
Displacement |
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Length | |
Beam | 36.5 ft (11.13 m) |
Draught | 9 ft (2.74 m); 13 ft (3.96 m) (deep load) |
Propulsion | 2 x Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) |
Speed |
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Range | 646 long tons (656 t; 724 short tons) oil fuel; 7,500 nautical miles (13,890 km) at 15 knots (27.8 km/h) |
Complement | 157 |
Armament |
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HMCS Poundmaker was a
Poundmaker was ordered on 1 February 1943 as part of the 1943–1944 River-class building program.[2][3] She was laid down on 29 January 1944 by Canadian Vickers Ltd. at Montreal, Quebec and launched on 21 April later that year.[3] She was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on 17 September 1944 at Montreal.[2]
Background
The River-class frigate was designed by William Reed of Smith's Dock Company of South Bank-on-Tees. Originally called a "twin-screw corvette", its purpose was to improve on the convoy escort classes in service with the
Improvements over the corvette design included improved accommodation which was markedly better. The twin engines gave only three more knots of speed but extended the range of the ship to nearly double that of a corvette at 7,200 nautical miles (13,300 km) at 12 knots.
River-class frigates were the first Royal Canadian Navy warships to carry the 147B Sword horizontal fan echo sonar transmitter in addition to the irregular ASDIC. This allowed the ship to maintain contact with targets even while firing unless a target was struck. Improved radar and direction-finding equipment improved the RCN's ability to find and track enemy submarines over the previous classes.[4]
Canada originally ordered the construction of 33 frigates in October 1941.[4][5] The design was too big for the shipyards on the Great Lakes so all the frigates built in Canada were built in dockyards along the west coast or along the St. Lawrence River.[5] In all Canada ordered the construction of 60 frigates including ten for the Royal Navy that transferred two to the United States Navy.[4]
War service
After working up in
Postwar service
Poundmaker underwent a minor refit at Dartmouth in 1947 at the cost of $200,000 after being sold to the Peruvian Navy.[6] From there she sailed to Peru where she was recommissioned as the Teniente Ferré. In 1954 she was sent to the United States to have her armament and fire control upgraded.[7] She was renamed as Ferré in 1953 and was discarded in 1966.[2]
References
- Notes
- ^ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ ISBN 0-00216-856-1.
- ^ a b "HMCS Poundmaker (K 675)". uboat.net. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f "Fact Sheet No. 21 – Canadian River Class Frigates". Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ ISBN 0920277225.
- ^ "Ex R.C.N. Frigates Ready". Montreal Gazette. 31 March 1947. p. 19. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
- ^ Raymond V.B. Blackman, ed. (1963). Jane's fighting ships 1963–1964. Sampson Low. p. 199.
- References
- Macpherson, Ken; Burgess, John. The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910–1981 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships. Collins: Toronto, 1981. ISBN 0-00216-856-1