HMCS Vancouver (F6A)

Career (United Kingdom)
Name:	HMS Toreador
Namesake:	Toreador
Builder:	Thorneycroft
Launched:	7 December 1918
Decommissioned:	1928
Fate:	Transferred to RCN
Career (Canada)
Name:	HMCS Vancouver (F6A)
Namesake:	Vancouver, British Columbia
Acquired:	1 March1928
Decommissioned:	1937
Fate:	Arrived Vancouver 24 April 1937 for scrapping
General characteristics
Class and type:	Thornycroft S class destroyer
Displacement:	1087 tons

HMCS Vancouver, (F6A), was a Thornycroft S class destroyer, formerly HMS Toreador built for the Royal Navy in 1917-19.

This ship, along with her sister HMS Torbay, were donated by the British Government to Canada in March 1928 to replace their two existing destroyers, HMCS Patrician and HMCS Patriot. At the same time the Canadian Government commissioned the construction of two further destroyers, HMCS Saguenay and HMCS Skeena.

This ship and her sister ship HMCS Champlain was paid off and broken up in 1937.

References

• Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8. OCLC 67375475.