![]() HMCS Sherbrooke
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Name | Sherbrooke |
Namesake | Sherbrooke, Quebec |
Ordered | 22 January 1940 |
Builder | Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel |
Laid down | 5 August 1940 |
Launched | 25 October 1940 |
Commissioned | 5 June 1941 |
Out of service | paid off 28 June 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K152 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1941–45[1] |
Fate | Sold for scrapping. |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette (original)[2] |
Displacement | 950 long tons (970 t; 1,060 short tons) |
Length | 205 ft (62.48 m) |
Beam | 33 ft (10.06 m) |
Draught | 11.5 ft (3.51 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
Range | 3,450 nmi (6,390 km; 3,970 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
Complement | 6 officers, 79 enlisted |
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HMCS Sherbrooke was a 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 an ocean escort. She is named for Sherbrooke, Quebec.