HMCS Orillia
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History | |
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Canada | |
Name | Orillia |
Namesake | Orillia, Ontario |
Ordered | 1 February 1940 |
Builder | Collingwood Shipyards Ltd. Collingwood |
Laid down | 4 March 1940 |
Launched | 15 September 1940 |
Commissioned | 25 November 1940 |
Out of service | paid off 2 July 1945 |
Identification | Pennant number: K119 |
Honours and awards | Atlantic 1941–45[1] |
Fate | Scrapped 1951 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Flower-class corvette (original)[2] |
Displacement | 925 long tons (940 t; 1,036 short tons) |
Length | 205 ft (62.48 m)o/a |
Beam | 33 ft (10.06 m) |
Draught | 11.5 ft (3.51 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 16 knots (29.6 km/h) |
Range | 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h) |
Complement | 85 |
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Armament |
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HMCS Orillia was a Flower-class corvette that served with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Orillia, Ontario.