HMCS Loos
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 HMCS Loos | |
| Career (Canada) | Canadian Naval Ensign (pre 1957) |
|---|---|
| Name: | HMCS Loos |
| Namesake: | Battle of Loos |
| Builder: | Kingston Shipbuilding Company, Kingston, Ontario |
| Launched: | 27 September 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 1 August 1918 |
| Decommissioned: | 1920 |
| Recommissioned: | 12 December 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | 1945 |
| Fate: | Broken up, 1949 |
| 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 × 12-pounder gun |
HMCS Loos was one of twelve Battle class naval trawlers used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). Built by the Kingston Shipbuilding Company and launched in September 1917, she was commissioned in August 1918. Decommissioned in 1920, Loos was transferred to the Department of Marine and Fisheries, where she was used as a lighthouse supply ship. Sold in 1937, she was re-acquired by the RCN in December 1940 and converted to a gate vessel, spending part of the war at Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Returned to Marine Industries Limited in 1945, Loos was broken up in 1949.[1]
References
- ↑ 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), 24. ISBN 0-920277-91-8
