HMCS Stellarton

	HMCS Stellarton
History
Canada
Name	HMCS Stellarton
Namesake	Stellarton, Nova Scotia
Ordered	June 1942
Builder	Morton Engineering and Dry Dock Co., Quebec City
Laid down	16 November 1943
Launched	27 April 1944
Commissioned	29 September 1944
Decommissioned	1 July 1945
Identification	Pennant number: K457
Honours and; awards	Atlantic 1945
Fate	Sold to Chilean navy
Chile
Name	Casma
Acquired	18 March 1946
Commissioned	12 April 1946
Decommissioned	30 December 1967
Fate	Scrapped 1969
General characteristics
Class & type	Modified Flower-class corvette
Displacement	1,015 long tons (1,031 t; 1,137 short tons)
Length	208 ft (63.4 m)o/a
Beam	33 ft (10.1 m)
Draught	11 ft (3.35 m)
Propulsion	single shaft; 2 × water tube boilers; 1 × 4-cylinder 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	90
Sensors &; processing systems	1 × Type 271 SW2C radar; 1 × Type 144 sonar;
Armament	1 × 4 in (102 mm) BL Mk.IX single gun; 1 × 2 pdr. Mk.VIII single "pom-pom" AA gun; 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon single; 1 × Hedgehog A/S mortar; 4 × Mk.II depth charge throwers; 2 depth charge rails with 70 depth charges;

HMCS Stellarton was a modified Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic as a convoy escort. She was named for Stellarton, Nova Scotia. After the war she was sold to the Chilean Navy.