HMCS Festubert
HMCS Festubert underway
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| Name: | Festubert |
| Namesake: | Battle of Festubert |
| Builder: | Polson Iron Works, Toronto |
| Launched: | 2 August 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 13 November 1917 |
| Recommissioned: | 1 May 1923 |
| Decommissioned: | 1934 |
| Recommissioned: | 1939 |
| Decommissioned: | 17 April 1945 |
| Fate: | Sold 1946, scuttled 30 June 1971 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Battle-class naval trawler |
| Displacement: | 320 long tons (330 t) |
| Length: | 130 ft (40 m) |
| Beam: | 23 ft 5 in (7.14 m) |
| Draught: | 13 ft 5 in (4.09 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1 x triple expansion, 480 ihp (360 kW) |
| Speed: | 10 knots (12 mph; 19 km/h) |
| Armament: | 1 × QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun |
HMCS Festubert was one of twelve Battle-class naval trawlers constructed for and used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) during the First World War. Following the war, Festubert remained in Canadian service as a training ship until 1934. Reactivated for the Second World War, the ship was used as a gate vessel in the defence of Halifax, Nova Scotia and re-designated Gate Vessel 17. Following the war, the trawler was sold for commercial use and renamed Inverleigh. Inverleigh was scuttled off Burgeo, Newfoundland on 30 June 1971.
The RCN's Battle-class trawlers formed part of the Canadian naval response to Admiralty warnings to Canada about the growing German U-boat threat to merchant shipping in the western Atlantic. Intended to augment anti-submarine patrols off Canada's east coast, these ships were modelled on contemporary British North Sea trawlers, since the standard types of Canadian fishing vessels were considered unsuitable for patrol work.
Twelve vessels were ordered on 2 February 1917 from two shipyards, Polson Iron Works of Toronto and Canadian Vickers of Montreal. Those vessels built at Polson Iron Works displaced 320 long tons (330 t) and were 130 feet (40 m) long overall with a beam of 23 feet 5 inches (7.14 m) and a draught of 13 feet 5 inches (4.09 m). They were propelled by a steam-powered triple expansion engine driving one shaft creating 480 indicated horsepower (360 kW) giving the vessels a maximum speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).
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