HMCS Malaspina
HMCS Malaspina underway
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 Canada
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| Name: | Malaspina |
| Builder: | Dublin Dockyard, Dublin, Ireland |
| Laid down: | 1913 |
| Launched: | 5 July 1913 |
| Completed: | August 1913 |
| In service: | 1913 |
| Out of service: | 1 December 1917 |
| Fate: | Transferred to Royal Canadian Navy 1917 |
 Canada
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| Name: | Malaspina |
| Commissioned: | 1 December 1917 |
| Decommissioned: | 31 March 1920 |
| Recommissioned: | 6 September 1939 |
| Decommissioned: | 24 January 1945 |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap, 1946 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Patrol vessel |
| Displacement: | 392 GRT |
| Length: | 162.4 ft (49.5 m) pp. |
| Beam: | 27.1 ft (8.3 m) |
| Draught: | 13.1 ft (4.0 m) |
| Propulsion: | 1 screw, triple expansion steam engine, 1,350 ihp (1,007 kW) |
| Speed: | 14.5 knots (27 km/h) |
| Complement: | 33 |
HMCS Malaspina was a Canadian government fisheries patrol vessel pressed into service with the Royal Canadian Navy in 1917 and again in 1939 and which therefore saw service during the First World War and Second World War. The vessel was constructed in 1913 in Dublin, Ireland and patrolled the fisheries along the West Coast of Canada.
A sister ship of CGS Galiano, Malaspina was also taken over by the Royal Canadian Navy, and both ships mixed civil duties with naval patrol and examination work, including minesweeping training and trials, for much of the war. Malaspina survived the war and returned to fisheries protection work in 1920. In 1939, following the outbreak of the Second World War, Malaspina was again commissioned in the Royal Canadian Navy, serving as a patrol and examination vessel and subsequently as a training ship before being paid off in 1945 and sold for scrap in 1946.
Malaspina was designed as coastal patrol vessel. The vessel had a gross register tonnage (GRT) of 392, was 162.4 ft (49.5 m) long between perpendiculars with a beam of 27.1 ft (8.3 m) and a draught of 13.1 ft (4.0 m). The vessel was powered by a triple expansion steam engine driving one screw creating 1,350 indicated horsepower (1,007 kW). This gave Malaspina a maximum speed of 14.5 knots (27 km/h). In Royal Canadian Navy service, the ship was armed with one QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss gun mounted forward and had a complement of 33.
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