HMCS Winnipeg (J337)
As Belgian Navy A.F. Dufour | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Canada | |
| Name | Winnipeg |
| Namesake | Winnipeg, Manitoba |
| Ordered | 12 December 1941 |
| Builder | Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. |
| Laid down | 31 January 1942 |
| Launched | 19 September 1942 |
| Commissioned | 29 July 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 1 November 1946 |
| Identification | Pennant number: J337 |
| Honours & awards | Atlantic 1943–45 |
| Fate | Transferred to Belgium 1959 |
| Badge | Azure, a bison head passant, or |
| Belgium | |
| Name | A.F. Dufour |
| Operator | Belgian Navy |
| Acquired | 7 August 1959 |
| Stricken | 1966 |
| Identification | F903 |
| Fate | Broken up for scrap 1966 |
| 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) |
| Installed power |
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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) |
| Complement | 85 |
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HMCS Winnipeg was an Algerine-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. Used primarily as a convoy escort, the vessel served in the Battle of the Atlantic. Following the war she placed in reserve before being sold to Belgium and renamed A.F. Dufour. She served with the Belgian Navy until 1966.