HMCS Bittersweet K182

HMCS Bittersweet was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy. She was ordered for the Royal Navy from Marine Industries Ltd. in Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, and laid down on 17 April 1940. She was launched on 12 September 1940 and transferred to the RCN on 23 January 1941. She was named after the flowering vines Solanum dulcamara and Celastrus scandens.

 

Bittersweet escorted trade convoys between Halifax Harbour and Liverpool through the battle of the Atlantic. At the end of hostilities, the ship was returned to the Royal Navy and scrapped.

 

Namesake: Flowering vines Solanum dulcamara and Celastrus scandens

Builder: Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel-Tracy, Quebec

Laid down: 17 April 1940

Launched: 12 September 1940

Identification: Pennant number: K182

Fate: Returned to the Royal Navy on 22 June 1945 and scrapped in November 1950.

General characteristics

Class and type: Flower-class corvette (original)[1]

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: single shaft

2 x fire tube Scotch boilers

1 x 4-cycle triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine

2,750 ihp (2,050 kW)

 

Speed: 16 knots (29.6 km/h)

Range: 3,500 nautical miles (6,482 km) at 12 knots (22.2 km/h)

Complement: 85

Sensors and

processing systems: 1 x SW1C or 2C radar

1 x Type 123A or Type 127DV sonar

 

Armament: 1 x BL 4-inch (101.6 mm) Mk.IX single gun

2 x .50 cal machine gun (twin)

2 x Lewis .303 cal machine gun (twin)

2 x Mk.II depth charge throwers

2 x depth charge rails with 40 depth charges

originally fitted with minesweeping gear, later removed

 

 

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