HMCS Fort Erie (K670)

Namesake:	Fort Erie, Ontario
Builder:	Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon
Laid down:	3 November 1943
Launched:	27 May 1944
Commissioned:	27 October 1944
Decommissioned:	22 November 1945
Notes:	Colours:Red and Black
Badge:	Blazon Argent, out of a mural crown sable, a demi cat rampant guardant gules armed azure, collared and chained or, holding erect a trident azure, the base end resting on the mural crown.
General characteristics
Class and type:	River class frigate
Displacement:	1,445 long tons (1,468 t; 1,618 ST); 2,110 long tons (2,140 t; 2,360 ST) (deep load)
Length:	283 ft (86.26 m) p/p; 301.25 ft (91.82 m)o/a
Beam:	36.5 ft (11.13 m)
Draught:	9 ft (2.74 m); 13 ft (3.96 m) (deep load)
Propulsion:	2 x Admiralty 3-drum boilers, 2 shafts, reciprocating vertical triple expansion, 5,500 ihp (4,100 kW)
Speed:	20 knots (37.0 km/h); 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h) (turbine ships)
Range:	646 long tons (656 t; 724 ST) oil fuel; 7,500 nautical miles (13,890 km) at 15 knots (27.8 km/h)
Complement:	157
Armament:	2 x QF 4 in (102 mm) /45 Mk. XVI on twin mount HA/LA Mk.XIX; 1 x QF 12 pdr (3 in / 76 mm) 12 cwt /50 Mk. V on mounting HA/LA Mk.IX (not all ships); 8 x 20 mm QF Oerlikon A/A on twin mounts Mk.V; 1 x Hedgehog 24 spigot A/S projector; up to 150 depth charges;

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HMCS Fort Erie (K670) was a River class frigate that served in the Royal Canadian Navy from 1944-1945 and as a Prestonian class frigate from 1956-1965.

Built by Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., Lauzon, she was commissioned into the RCN on 27 October 1944 with the pennant K670. She was placed in reserve in 1945 and reactivated in 1953. She underwent conversion to a Prestonian class frigate from 1953-1955 and was recommissioned with pennant 312 on 17 April 1956.

She was paid off by the RCN on 26 March 1965.