{{short description|Royal Canadian Navy minesweeper}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox ship |section1={{Infobox ship/image |image= |image_caption= }}
|section2={{Infobox ship/career |hide_header= |country=Canada |flag= {{shipboxflag|Canada|naval-1911}} {{shipboxflag|Canada|naval}} |name=''Kapuskasing'' |namesake= [[Kapuskasing|Kapuskasing, Ontario]] |ordered=12 December 1941 |builder=[[Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company|Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. Ltd.]], [[Port Arthur, Ontario|Port Arthur]] |laid_down=19 December 1942<ref name="readyayeready">{{cite web |url=http://www.readyayeready.com/ships/shipview.php?id=1195?ship=KAPUSKASING |title= HMCS Kapuskasing |work=www.readyayeready.com |access-date=18 November 2009 }}</ref> |launched=22 July 1943 |sponsor= |christened= |completed= |acquired= |commissioned=17 August 1944 |decommissioned=27 March 1946 |identification= [[pennant number]]: J236 }}
|section3={{Infobox ship/career |hide_header=yes |recommissioned=1949 |decommissioned=1972 |in_service= |out_of_service= |renamed= |reclassified= |identification= pennant number: 171 |refit= |struck= |reinstated= |homeport= |motto= |nickname= |honors=Atlantic, 1944–1945<ref name=Britain>{{cite web|title= Battle Honours | url=http://www.britainsnavy.co.uk/Battle%20Honours/A%20Battle%20Honour%20Date.htm#1900 |work=Britain's Navy |access-date=30 August 2014}}</ref><ref name=a1>Arbuckle, p. 53</ref> |fate= Expended as target 1978 |notes=Colours: White and dark green<ref name=a1/> |badge=Vert, shakefork couped, barry wavy argent and azure<ref name=a1/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/symbols/ships-badge-hmcs-kapuskasing/ |title=The Canadian Design Resource – Ship's Badge HMCS ''Kapuskasing'' |work=www.canadiandesignresource.ca |access-date=30 August 2014 |archive-date=23 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223155654/http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/symbols/ships-badge-hmcs-kapuskasing/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> }}
|section4={{Infobox ship/characteristics |hide_header= |header_caption= |class={{sclass|Algerine|minesweeper}} |displacement=*{{convert|1030|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} (standard) * {{convert|1325|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} (deep) |length={{convert|225|ft|m|abbr=on}} [[Length overall|o/a]] |beam={{convert|35|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} |draught={{convert|12.25|ft|6|in|m|abbr=on}} |depth= |hold_depth= |power=*2 × [[Admiralty 3-drum boiler]]s * {{convert|2400|ihp|abbr=on|lk=in}} |propulsion=*2 shafts * 2 [[Marine steam engine#Triple or multiple expansion|vertical triple-expansion steam engines]] |speed={{convert|16.5|kn|lk=in}} |range={{convert|5000|nmi|lk=in|abbr=on}} at {{convert|10|kn}} |complement=85 |sensors= |EW= |armament=*1 × [[QF 4 inch Mk V naval gun|QF {{Convert|4|in|mm|abbr=on|0}} Mk V anti-aircraft gun]] * 4 × twin [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon]] * 1 × [[Hedgehog (weapon)|Hedgehog]] }} }}
'''HMCS ''Kapuskasing''''' was an {{sclass|Algerine|minesweeper}} that served in the [[Royal Canadian Navy]] during the [[Second World War]]. The vessel was primarily used as a convoy escort in the [[Battle of the Atlantic]]. Following the war she saw service as a [[Research vessel#Hydrographic survey|hydrographic survey ship]] with the [[Natural Resources Canada|Department of Mines]]. She was named for [[Kapuskasing]], [[Ontario]].
==Design and description== The reciprocating group displaced {{convert|1010|-|1030|LT|t}} at [[Displacement (ship)|standard]] load and {{convert|1305|-|1325|LT|t}} at [[deep load]] The ships measured {{convert|225|ft|m|1}} [[length overall|long overall]] with a [[beam (nautical)|beam]] of {{convert|35|ft|6|in|m|1}}. They had a [[draft (hull)|draught]] of {{convert|12|ft|3|in|m|1}}. The ships' complement consisted of 85 officers and [[naval rating|ratings]].<ref name=l3>Lenton, p. 261</ref>
The reciprocating ships had two [[Marine steam engine#Triple or multiple expansion|vertical triple-expansion steam engines]], each driving one shaft, using steam provided by two [[Admiralty three-drum boiler]]s. The engines produced a total of {{convert|2400|ihp|lk=in}} and gave a maximum speed of {{convert|16.5|kn|lk=in}}. They carried a maximum of {{convert|660|LT|t|0}} of [[fuel oil]] that gave them a range of {{convert|5000|nmi|lk=in}} at {{convert|10|kn}}.<ref name=l3/>
The ''Algerine'' class was armed with a [[QF 4 inch Mk V naval gun|QF {{Convert|4|in|mm|abbr=on|0}} Mk V]] [[anti-aircraft gun]]<ref name=c1>Chesneau, p. 65</ref> and four twin-gun mounts for [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon]]. The latter guns were in short supply when the first ships were being completed and they often got a proportion of single mounts. By 1944, single-barrel [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|Bofors 40 mm]] mounts began replacing the twin 20 mm mounts on a one for one basis. All of the ships were fitted for four throwers and two rails for [[depth charge]]s. Many Canadian ships omitted their sweeping gear in exchange for a 24-barrel [[Hedgehog (weapon)|Hedgehog]] [[spigot mortar]] and a stowage capacity for 90+ depth charges.<ref name=l3/>
==Construction and career== ''Kapuskasing'' was ordered on 12 December 1941.<ref name=u1>{{cite web |url=http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3821.html |title=HMCS Kapuskasing (J 326) |work=www.uboat.net |access-date=30 August 2014}}</ref> The ship was [[Keel laying|laid down]] on 19 December 1942 by [[Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company|Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. Ltd.]] at [[Port Arthur, Ontario]] and [[ceremonial ship launching|launched]] 22 July 1943.<ref name=u1/><ref name=m1>Macpherson & Barrie, p. 196</ref> The vessel was [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] into the Royal Canadian Navy on 17 August 1944 at Port Arthur, with the pennant J326.<ref name=m1/>
After commissioning, ''Kapuskasing'' was sent to [[Bermuda]] to work up. Upon the vessel's return to Canadian waters, she was assigned to the [[Western Local Escort Force|Western Escort Force]] as Senior Officer's Ship of escort group W-1. As Senior Officer Ship, the commander of the escort would be aboard her during convoy missions.<ref>Burn, p. 242</ref> Primarily used as a convoy escort, the ship remained with the group until the end of hostilities in the Atlantic Ocean. The group was disbanded in June 1945 and she was placed in maintenance reserve at [[Sydney, Nova Scotia]].<ref name=m1/>
In November 1945, ''Kapuskasing'' underwent a refit at [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]] and upon its completion, was paid off into the reserve on 27 March 1946.<ref name=m1/>
In 1949, ''Kapuskasing'' was recommissioned and was assigned pennant 171. The vessel was loaned to the [[Department of Mines and Technical Surveys]] for use as a hydrographic survey platform. The ship was returned to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1972. On 3 October 1978, she was taken to sea and sunk as a naval target.<ref name=m1/>
==See also== * [[List of ships of the Canadian Navy]]
==Notes== {{Reflist|30em}}
==References== * {{cite book |last=Arbuckle |first=J. Graeme |date=1987 |title=Badges of the Canadian Navy |publisher=Nimbus Publishing |location=Halifax, Nova Scotia |isbn=0-920852-49-1}} * {{cite book |last=Burn |first=Alan |date=1999 |title=The Fighting Commodores: The Convoy Commanders in the Second World War |publisher=Leo Cooper |location=London |isbn=9780850525045}} * {{cite book|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946|editor1-last=Chesneau|editor1-first=Roger |publisher=Conway Maritime Press|location=Greenwich, UK|year=1980|isbn=0-85177-146-7}} * {{Colledge: Ships RN|year=2006}} * {{cite book|last=Lenton|first=H. T.|author-link=Henry Trevor Lenton|title=British & Empire Warships of the Second World War|publisher=Naval Institute Press|location=Annapolis, Maryland|year=1998|isbn=1-55750-048-7}} * {{cite book|last1=Macpherson |first1=Ken |last2=Barrie |first2=Ron |title=The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910–2002 |edition=3 |publisher=Vanwell Publishing |location=St. Catharines, Ontario |date=2002 |isbn=1-55125-072-1}}
{{Algerine class minesweepers}} {{1978 shipwrecks}}
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