HMCS Penetang (FFE 316)
HMCS Penetang
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 Canada
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| Name: | Penetang |
| Namesake: | Penetanguishene, Ontario |
| Ordered: | June 1942 |
| Builder: | Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon |
| Yard number: | 557 |
| Laid down: | 22 September 1943 |
| Launched: | 6 July 1944 |
| Commissioned: | 19 October 1944 |
| Decommissioned: | 10 November 1945 |
| Identification: | pennant number: K 676 |
| Recommissioned: | 1 June 1954 |
| Decommissioned: | 2 September 1955 |
| Reclassified: | Prestonian-class frigate 1954 |
| Identification: | pennant number: FFE 316 |
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Atlantic 1945 |
| Fate: | loaned to Norway 10 March 1956; sold to Norway 1959 |
| Notes: | Colours:White and blue |
| Badge: | Azure, an hourglass framed or, with sands argent, the upper cup nearly full. |
 Norway
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| Name: | Draug |
| Namesake: | The sea revenant Draugr |
| Acquired: | loaned 10 March 1956; purchased 1959 |
| Commissioned: | 1956 |
| Decommissioned: | 1966 |
| Identification: | (as Draug) F313 |
| Fate: | sold for scrapping 1966 |
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| Class and type: | River-class frigate |
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| Beam: | 36.5 ft (11.13 m) |
| Draught: | 9 ft (2.74 m); 13 ft (3.96 m) (deep load) |
| Propulsion: | 2 × Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW) |
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| Range: | 646 long tons (656 t; 724 short tons) oil fuel; 7,500 nautical miles (13,890 km) at 15 knots (27.8 km/h) |
| Complement: | 157 |
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HMCS Penetang was a River-class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1944–1945 during the Second World War. She fought in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was recommissioned and served as a Prestonian-class frigate from 1954–1956. She was named for Penetanguishene, Ontario.
Penetang was ordered in June 1942 as part of the 1942 River-class building programme. She was laid down as Rouyn on 22 September 1943 by Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd. at Lauzon and launched 6 July 1944. Her name was changed and she was commissioned as Penetang into the RCN at Quebec City on 19 October 1944 with the pennant K676.
The River-class frigate was designed by William Reed of Smith's Dock Company of South Bank-on-Tees. Originally called a "twin-screw corvette", its purpose was to improve on the convoy escort classes in service with the Royal Navy at the time, including the Flower-class corvette. The first orders were placed by the Royal Navy in 1940 and the vessels were named for rivers in the United Kingdom, giving name to the class. In Canada they were named for towns and cities though they kept the same designation. The name "frigate" was suggested by Vice-Admiral Percy Nelles of the Royal Canadian Navy and was adopted later that year.
Improvements over the corvette design included improved accommodation which was markedly better. The twin engines gave only three more knots of speed but extended the range of the ship to nearly double that of a corvette at 7,200 nautical miles (13,300 km) at 12 knots. Among other lessons applied to the design was an armament package better designed to combat U-boats including a twin 4-inch mount forward and 12-pounder aft. 15 Canadian frigates were initially fitted with a single 4-inch gun forward but with the exception of the HMCS Valleyfield, they were all eventually upgraded to the double mount. For underwater targets, the River-class frigate was equipped with a Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar and depth charge rails aft and four side-mounted throwers.
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