| History | |
|---|---|
 Canada | |
| Name | Minas |
| Namesake | Minas Basin |
| Ordered | 23 February 1940 |
| Builder | Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd., North Vancouver |
| Laid down | 18 October 1940 |
| Launched | 22 January 1941 |
| Commissioned | 2 August 1941 |
| Decommissioned | 6 October 1945 |
| Identification | Pennant number: J165 |
| Recommissioned | 15 March 1955 |
| Decommissioned | 7 November 1955 |
| Identification | pennant number: 189 |
| Honours and awards | Atlantic 1941–44, Normandy 1944[1] |
| Fate | Sold for scrap 1958. |
| Badge | Argent, a pile barry wavy or and azure, and over all placed horizontally, a billet gules.[1] |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Bangor-class minesweeper |
| Displacement | 672 long tons (683 t) |
| Length | 180 ft (54.9 m) oa |
| Beam | 28 ft 6 in (8.7 m) |
| Draught | 9 ft 9 in (3.0 m) |
| Propulsion | 2 Admiralty 3-drum water tube boilers, 2 shafts, vertical triple-expansion reciprocating engines, 2,400 ihp (1,790 kW) |
| Speed | 16.5 knots (31 km/h) |
| Complement | 83 |
| Armament |
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HMCS Minas was a Bangor-class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She saw action in the Battle of the Atlantic and the Invasion of Normandy. She was named for Minas Basin.[2] After the war she was reactivated for a short period of time in 1955 before being sold for scrap.