HMCS Sackville K181 Flower-class Corvette

HMCS Sackville K181 Flower-class Corvette is located in downtown Halifax Nova Scotia Canada. Now a museum ship owned by the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust, moored in

season at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic and the official name is HMCS Sackville National Historic Site of Canada

 

General characteristics

Class and type: Flower-class corvette

Displacement: 950 tons

Length: 62.5 m (205 ft 1 in)

Beam: 10 m (32 ft 10 in)

Draught: 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in)

Propulsion: Single shaft, 2 fire tube

Scotch boilers, 1 4-cyl. triple

expansion steam engine,

2,750 hp (2,050 kW)

Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)

Complement: 85

Armament: 1 BL 4 in (102 mm) Mk.IX

gun

1 QF Mk.VIII 2-pounder gun

on antiaircraft mount

2 20 mm Oerlikon AA

cannon

2 Lewis .303 cal twin

machine guns

4 Mk.II depth charge

throwers

2 depth charge rails with 40

depth charges

1 Mk 3 hedgehog

 

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