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HMCS Fort Frances
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History
Canada
Name Fort Frances
Namesake Fort Frances, Ontario
Ordered 25 November 1942
Builder Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company Ltd.
Laid down 11 May 1943
Launched 30 October 1943
Commissioned 28 October 1944
Decommissioned 3 August 1945
Recommissioned 23 October 1945
Decommissioned 5 April 1946
Identification Pennant number: J396
Honours and
awards		 Atlantic 1945
Fate Transferred to Department of Mines and Technical Surveys 1948
Badge Azure, a unicorn's head erased argent, armed and crine, or langued gules, gorged with a plain collar of gold on which a plate edged or and charged with a maple leaf gules
General characteristics
Class and type Algerine-class minesweeper
Displacement
  • 1,030 long tons (1,047 t) (standard)
  • 1,325 long tons (1,346 t) (deep)
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
  • 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers
  • 2,400 ihp (1,800 kW)
Propulsion
  • 2 shafts
  • 2 vertical triple-expansion steam engines
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
Armament
  • 1 × QF 4 in (102 mm) Mk V anti-aircraft gun
  • 4 × twin Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
  • 1 × Hedgehog

HMCS Fort Frances (J396) was an Algerine-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II.

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