HMCS Asbestos ( Asbestos EVKK) - Canadian corvette type "Flower" during the Second World War . Unlike most corvettes of this type, it is not named after a plant, but in honor of a city in the province of Quebec . Belongs to the family of modified corvettes of the "Flower" type.
| HMCS Asbestos | |
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| Title | HMCS Asbestos |
| Class and type of vessel | flower corvette |
| Port of registry | Quebec |
| Organization | Royal canadian navy |
| Manufacturer | Morton Engineering & Dry Dock Co. |
| Construction started | July 20, 1943 |
| Launched | November 22, 1943 |
| Commissioned | June 16, 1944 |
| Withdrawn from the fleet | July 8, 1945 |
| Status | sank on February 13, 1949 off the coast of Cuba , in March 1949 it was lifted from the bottom and scrapped in New Orleans |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 1031 t |
| Length | 63.4 m |
| Width | 10.06 m |
| Draft | 3.35 m |
| Engines | triple expansion steam engine, two boilers |
| Power | 2750 liters from. |
| Speed | 16 knots |
| Sailing range | 3,500 nautical miles at 12 knots |
| Crew | 90 people |
| Armament | |
| Radar weapons | Type 271 Radar SW2C, Type 144 Radar |
| Artillery | 102-mm naval gun Mk IX |
| Flak | two 40 mm Mk VIII guns , 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon , 2 × 7.7 mm Lewis machine guns |
| Anti-submarine weapons | Hedgehog bomb, 4 Mk II bombs, 2 bomb drop compartments (40 bombs) |
Service History
Asbestos was laid down on July 20, 1943 on the slipway of the Morton Engineering shipyard, launched on November 22, 1943 , and was accepted into the fleet on June 16, 1944 . July 9 arrived in Halifax , from where he went to serve in Bermuda .
During the war years, the corvette accompanied numerous convoys: on August 21, he sailed from St. John to escort his first convoy HXF.307 as part of the escort group C-2. It remained until the end of the war; the only commander was Lieutenant (from January 1, 1945, Lieutenant Commander) J. Cuthbert.
July 8, 1945 removed from the fleet and transferred to Sorel-Tresi. In 1947 it was sold to a private company in Panama as a merchant ship. On February 13, 1949 , it crashed off the coast of Cuba, but it was soon lifted from the bottom and towed to New Orleans, where it was scrapped in March of that year.
Links
- HMCS Asbestos (K 358) . Uboat.net . Date of treatment June 8, 2008. Archived January 7, 2013.
- HMCS Asbestos (K 358) . ReadyAyeReady . Date of treatment June 8, 2008. Archived January 7, 2013.
- HMCS Asbestos (K 358) . Arnold Hague database at convoyweb.org.uk . Date of treatment June 8, 2008.
- HMCS Asbestos (K 358) . Canadian Navy Heritage Project . Date of treatment June 8, 2008. Archived January 7, 2013.