HMCS Giffard (K402)
HMCS Giffard | |
| History | |
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| Canada | |
| Name | HMCS Giffard |
| Namesake | Giffard, Quebec |
| Ordered | 2 February 1942 |
| Builder | Alexander Hall & Co. Ltd. Aberdeen |
| Laid down | 30 November 1942 |
| Launched | 19 June 1943 |
| Commissioned | 10 November 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 5 July 1945 |
| Identification | Pennant number: K402 |
| Honours & awards | Atlantic 1944 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1952 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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 | single shaft, 2 × oil fired water tube boilers, 1 triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine, 2,750 ihp (2,050 kW) |
| Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
| Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
| Complement | 90 |
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HMCS Giffard was a modified Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She served primarily as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was originally laid down by the British Royal Navy as HMS Buddleia but was never commissioned into the former, being transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy before completion. She is named for Giffard, Quebec, which at the time was a small village, but was eventually amalgamated into first, Beauport Quebec and then finally, Quebec City.