HMCS Norsyd
HMCS Norsyd | |
| 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 |
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| Fate | Sold for mercantile use |
| Israel | |
| Name | INS Haganah |
| Acquired | 1948 |
| Decommissioned | 1954 |
| Identification | K-20 |
| Fate | Scrapped 1956 |
| 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) |
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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 |
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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. After the war she served as a merchant ship and then as a corvette in the Israeli Navy.