HMCS Porte St. Louis (YMG 183)

HMCS Porte St. Louis was a Porte-class gate vessel of the Royal Canadian Navy.

History
Canada
Name: Porte St. Louis
Builder: George T. Davie & Sons, Lauzon
Laid down: 21 March 1951
Launched: 23 July 1952
Commissioned: 29 August 1952
Decommissioned: 1 September 1995
Identification: Pennant number: YMG 183
Fate: Retired
General characteristics
Class and type: Porte-class gate vessel
Displacement: 498 tons
Length: 125.5 ft (38.3 m)
Beam: 26.3 ft (8.0 m)
Draught: 13 ft (4.0 m)
Speed: 11 kn (20 km/h)
Complement: 23 (later increase to 35 for training purposes)
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • Mechanical minesweeping equipment (later removed)
  • Boom defence equipment
Armament: 1 × 40mm Bofors single mount (later removed)

Construction and career

Porte St. Louis was built by George T. Davie & Sons, Lauzon, being laid down on 21 March 1951 and launched on 23 July 1952. She was commissioned on 29 August 1952 and like her sister ships, took the name of one of the gates in the fortifications of Quebec or Louisbourg.

Though the class were designed to operate the gates in anti-submarine booms, there was little need for this during the Cold War and most of the class was placed in reserve in the late 1950s. The class was reactivated in the mid-1960s and used as training vessels for personnel of the Canadian Forces Naval Reserve at Fleet School Hamilton, Ontario. Porte St. Louis was based at Halifax, Nova Scotia until being paid off on 1 September 1995 and disposed of.

gollark: Yes, the toaster contains one ultra-fast toasting charge and once that's used up it's burned out.
gollark: Did their toaster go on sale yet?
gollark: I want to add full text search to minoteaur, as it would be very not good without that. However, it needs to store an uncompressed copy of stuff to provide many FTS features, which means I would either end up being MILDLY INEFFICIENT and storing revision data twice, or have somewhat more code to avoid duplicate datoids.
gollark: No, I solved that one ages ago, it's easy.
gollark: Oh dear. I have encountered a horrible dilemma.

References
  • "HMCS St. Louis". readyayeready.com. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
  • "Gate Vessels - Radio Fit". Radio Communications and Signals Intelligence in the Royal Canadian Navy. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
  • Boutilier, James A. (1982). The Rcn in Retrospect, 1910-1968. UBC Press. p. 316.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.