SLNS Gajabahu
HMCS Hallowell | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Canada | |
| Name | Hallowell |
| Namesake | Hallowell, Ontario |
| Operator | Royal Canadian Navy |
| Ordered | 1 February 1943 |
| Builder | Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal |
| Yard number | 178 |
| Laid down | 22 November 1943 |
| Launched | 28 March 1944 |
| Commissioned | 8 August 1944 |
| Decommissioned | 7 November 1945 |
| Identification | Pennant number:K666 |
| Honours & awards | Atlantic, 1944-45. |
| Fate | Sold to Uruguayan interests 1946; resold to Palestinian firm, turned into ferry Sharon 1949 |
| Israel | |
| Name | Miznak |
| Namesake | name means "jet branch" |
| Acquired | 1952 |
| Commissioned | 1952 |
| Fate | Sold to Ceylon, 1958 |
| Ceylon ⁄ Sri Lanka | |
| Name | Gajabahu |
| Namesake | King Gajabahu I |
| Acquired | 1958 |
| Commissioned | 1958 |
| Renamed | SLNS Gajabahu, 1972 |
| Decommissioned | 1978 |
| Homeport | Naval and Maritime Academy, Trincomalee |
| Fate | Cadet officer training & accommodation ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | River-class frigate |
| Displacement |
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| Length | |
| Beam | 36.5 ft (11.1 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft (2.7 m) ; 13 ft (4.0 m) full load |
| Propulsion | 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) |
| Range | 646 tons oil fuel; 7,500 nmi (13,900 km) at 15-knot (28 km/h) |
| Complement | 107 |
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SLNS Gajabahu (named after Gajabahu, a former king of Sri Lanka) was a River-class frigate of the Sri Lanka Navy. She has since been converted to a training ship for the Naval & Maritime Academy, Trincomalee. She was originally HMCS Hallowell of the Royal Canadian Navy, built during the Second World War and then saw service as INS Miznak of the Israeli Navy. The Royal Ceylon Navy purchased her in 1958 from Israel.