HMCS TRENTONIAN
SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATIONS

Revised Flower Class Corvette, 1942-1943 Increased Endurance Program
Built: Kingston Shipbuilding Yards, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Laid Down: February 2, 1943
Launched: September 1, 1943
Commissioned: December 1, 1943
Paid Off: February 22, 1945
Pendant No: K368
Complement: 7 offficers/90 other ranks
Dispacement: 970 tons
Dimensions: Length -208ft. 4in. x Beam -33ft. 1in. x Draught -8ft. 10in. forward/13ft. 3in. aft.
Speed: 16 knots. Endurance 7,400 n.m. at 10 knots.
Machinery: 4 cyl. triple expansion engine, 2,750 HP, Single shaft. Two water-tube boilers. Fuel 338 tons.
Armament: 1 x 4in. QF Mk. XIX gun forward, 2 x 20mm Oerlikons bridge wings, 1 x 2pdr. Pom-Pom aft, Hedgehog forward, 2 x Depth Charge rails aft, 4 x Depth Charge Throwers midships, 100 Depth Charges, Radar (SW2C, Type 271), Asdic, Radio Direction Finder, 20 inch Search Light aft; later 4 x 20mm Oerlikons added (2 x aft of Funnel, 2 x aft of Pom-Pom Platform).
Fate: Torpedoed and sank by U1004, February 22, 1945, near Falmouth, One killed, five Missing Presumed Dead and 11 wounded, remainder rescued by British M.L.'s.
Battle Honours: ATLANTIC 1944, ENGLISH CHANNEL 1944-45, NORMANDY 1944.
Note 1: One of only two Canadian Ships to be accidently attacked by the United States Navy, during WWII.
Note 2: Only late war corvette lost to enemy action.

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