HMCS Sackville
HMCS Sackville in October 2006, moored behind the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and restored to her 1944 condition. | |
| History | |
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| Canada | |
| Name | Sackville |
| Namesake | Sackville, New Brunswick |
| Builder | Saint John Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company Ltd. |
| Laid down | 28 May 1940 |
| Launched | 15 May 1941 |
| Commissioned | 30 December 1941 |
| Decommissioned | 8 April 1946 |
| Refit |
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| Identification | Pennant number: K181 |
| Honours and awards | Atlantic 1942-44 |
| Status | Museum ship, Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & 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 |
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| Notes | Now a museum ship owned by the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust, moored in season at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic |
| Official name | HMCS Sackville National Historic Site of Canada |
| Designated | 1988 |
HMCS Sackville is a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later served as a civilian research vessel. She is now a museum ship located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the last surviving Flower-class corvette.