HMCS Wallaceburg
As Belgian Georges Lecointe | |
| History | |
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| Canada | |
| Name | Wallaceburg |
| Namesake | Wallaceburg, Ontario |
| Ordered | 12 December 1941 |
| Builder | Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Port Arthur |
| Laid down | 6 July 1942 |
| Launched | 17 December 1942 |
| Commissioned | 18 November 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 7 October 1946 |
| Identification | Pennant number: J 336 |
| Recommissioned | 1 November 1950 |
| Decommissioned | 24 September 1957 |
| Identification | pennant number: FSE 172 |
| Honours & awards | Atlantic 1944-45 |
| Fate | Sold to Belgian Navy |
| Badge | Gules, a demi lion erased argent with a chaplet of oak and maple leaves or. |
| Belgium | |
| Name | Georges Lecointe |
| Namesake | Georges Lecointe |
| Acquired | 31 July 1959 |
| Commissioned | 7 August 1959 |
| Decommissioned | 1969 |
| Stricken | 23 December 1970 |
| Identification | 901 |
| Fate | Sold for scrap |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Algerine-class minesweeper |
| Displacement | |
| Length | 225 ft (69 m) o/a |
| Beam | 35 ft 6 in (10.82 m) |
| Draught | 12.25 ft 6 in (3.89 m) |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph) |
| Range | 5,000 nmi (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
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HMCS Wallaceburg was an Algerine-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War as a convoy escort during the Battle of the Atlantic. After the war the vessel was used from 1950 to 1959 for cadet training. In 1959 she was sold to the Belgian Navy and served until 1969 as Georges Lecointe, the second ship to be named after Georges Lecointe.