HMCS St. Eloi
St Eloi without her gun
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| Name: | St. Eloi |
| Namesake: | Action of St Eloi Craters March – April 1916 |
| Ordered: | 2 February 1917 |
| Builder: | Polson Iron Works Limited, Toronto |
| Launched: | 2 August 1917 |
| Commissioned: | 13 November 1917 |
| Decommissioned: | 1920 |
| Recommissioned: | 1940 |
| Decommissioned: | June 1945 |
| Renamed: | Re-designated Lightship No. 20 |
| Fate: | Disposed of in 1962; final fate unknown |
| 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 St. Eloi 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 the ship was transferred to the Canadian Department of Marine and Fisheries and converted into a lightvessel. Re-designated Lightship No. 20, the vessel returned to RCN service in 1940 to become the gate vessel Gate Vessel 12 during the Second World War. After the war, the trawler returned to government service and was discarded in 1962.
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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