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Ship Type:
Frigate |
Class:
RIVER Class 42-43
Programme |
Displacement:
1445 Tonnes |
Length:
301.5 Feet |
Breadth:
36.6 Feet |
Draught:
9 Feet |
Top Speed:
19 Knots |
Pendant Number:
K665 |
# of Officers:
8 |
# of Crew:
133 |
Armament:
2-4" (1 x II), 4-20mm,
Hedgehog |
Builder:
Canadian Vickers Ltd.,
Montreal. Que. |
Laid Down:
26-Aug-43 |
Launched:
17-Nov-43 |
Commissioned:
3-Jun-44 |
Paid Off:
17-Jan-46 |
HMCS
Eastview (K665) was a River class frigate that served in
the Royal Canadian Navy from 1944-1946.
Named after the Ottawa suburb of Eastview (now Vanier), she
was built by Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal. She was
commissioned into the RCN at Quebec City on 3 June 1944 with
the pendant K665.
She arrived at her homeport of Halifax, Nova Scotia on 26
June 1944 and undertook work up training at Bermuda for one
month beginning 19 August 1944. She undertook convoy escort
operations in the North Atlantic from Halifax from 18
September 1944 until 28 April 1945.
With victory in Europe seemingly imminent, the RCN deployed
Eastview to Esquimalt that summer in preparation for
Operation Downfall, the Allied invasion of Japan. Eastview
joined the RCN's Pacific Fleet only 3 weeks before the
Surrender of Japan following the atomic bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
She was paid off from the RCN on 17 January 1946. On 22
January the decision was made to dismantle her armaments and
scuttle her with several other surplus RCN warships to form
a breakwater in Comox, British Columbia later that year.
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