HMCS Arras

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HMCS Arras, 1940
Career (Canada) Canadian Naval Ensign (pre 1957)
Name: HMCS Arras
Namesake: Battle of Arras
Builder: Kingston Shipbuilding Company, Kingston, Ontario
Launched: 15 September 1917
Commissioned: 5 June 1918
Decommissioned: 1 April 1919
Commissioned: 11 September 1939
Decommissioned: 1 April 1946
Fate: Broken up at Halifax, 1957
General characteristics
Class and type: Battle class naval trawler
Displacement: 357 long tons (363 t)
Length: 130 ft (40 m)
Beam: 25 ft (7.6 m)
Draught: 13 ft (4.0 m)
Speed: 10 knots (12 mph; 19 km/h)
Armament: 1 × QF 12-pounder (76-mm) gun

HMCS Arras was one of twelve Battle class naval trawlers used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). Named after the Battle of Arras, she was built by the Kingston Shipbuilding Company, in Kingston, Ontario, and was commissioned on 8 July 1918. Decommissioned on 1 April 1919, she became a fisheries protection vessel, and often served as a hospital ship for the fishing fleet on the Grand Banks. During the Second World War, Arras returned to RCN service, and was re-commissioned on 11 September 1939. Initially stationed in Halifax, Nova Scotia as a gate vessel, in mid-1941 she was sent to Sydney, Nova Scotia, where she served as Gate Vessel 15. While the ship was in Sydney, a November 1943 fire caused extensive damage. Decommissioned in April 1946, Arras was broken up at Halifax in 1957.[1]

References

  1. Ken Macpherson and John Burgess, The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910-1993 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships, (St. Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell Pub., 1994), 23. ISBN 0-920277-91-8

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