HMCS Crescent (R16)
HMCS Crescent was a C-class destroyer that was built for the Royal Navy but was transferred before completion and saw active service with the Royal Canadian Navy. She was one of 32 destroyers of that class built between 1943 and 1945 as part of the War Emergency Programme.
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HMCS Crescent (R16)
HMCS Crescent was a C-class destroyer that was built for the Royal Navy but was transferred before completion and saw active service with the Royal Canadian Navy. She was one of 32 destroyers of that class built between 1943 and 1945 as part of the War Emergency Programme.
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HMCS Crescent was a C-class de ...... s only made permanent in 1951.
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commissioning date
1945-09-10
decommissioning date
1970-04-01
laying down
1943-09-16
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9,957816e+1
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In virture cresco (I grow in virture)
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1,085088e+1
ship launched
1944-07-20
status
Scrapped 1971
transferred to Canada in January 1945
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743.046.707
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Ship acquired
loaned 1945, purchased 1951
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*4 × QF L/45 Mk IV guns on mo ...... der
*2 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannon
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Navy blue, a crescent argent defamed with a maple leaf gules for Canada
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Ship identification
Pennant number: 226
Pennant number: R16
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*2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers,
*Parsons single-reduction geared steam turbines,
*, 2 shafts
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HMCS Crescent was a C-class de ...... f the War Emergency Programme.
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HMCS Crescent (R16)
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Crescent
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