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

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HMCS Fort Frances
Career (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[1][2]
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[1]
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:
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:

    References

    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Arbuckle, p. 38
    2. ↑ "Battle Honours". Britain's Navy. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 5 April 2014.



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