HMCS Penetang
HMCS Penetang | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Canada | |
| Name | Penetang |
| Namesake | Penetanguishene, Ontario |
| Ordered | June 1942 |
| Builder | Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon |
| Yard number | 557 |
| Laid down | 22 September 1943 |
| Launched | 6 July 1944 |
| Commissioned | 19 October 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 10 November 1945 |
| Identification | Pennant number: K 676 |
| Recommissioned | 1 June 1954 |
| Decommissioned | 2 September 1955 |
| Reclassified | Prestonian-class frigate 1954 |
| Identification | pennant number: FFE 316 |
| Honours & awards | Atlantic 1945 |
| Fate | Loaned to Norway 10 March 1956; sold to Norway 1959 |
| Notes | Colours:White and blue |
| Badge | Azure, an hourglass framed or, with sands argent, the upper cup nearly full. |
| Norway | |
| Name | Draug |
| Namesake | The sea revenant Draugr |
| Acquired | loaned 10 March 1956; purchased 1959 |
| Commissioned | 1956 |
| Decommissioned | 1966 |
| Identification | (as Draug) F313 |
| Fate | Sold for scrapping 1966 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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 × 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 |
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HMCS Penetang was a River-class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1944 to 1945 during the Second World War. She fought in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was recommissioned and served as a Prestonian-class frigate from 1954 to 1956. She was named for Penetanguishene, Ontario.
Penetang was ordered in June 1942 as part of the 1942 River-class building programme. She was laid down as Rouyn on 22 September 1943 by Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. at Lauzon and launched 6 July 1944. Her name was changed and she was commissioned as Penetang into the RCN at Quebec City on 19 October 1944 with the pennant K676.