Jump to content

HMCS Hochelaga: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Content deleted Content added
launch 1900 according to infobox
No edit summary
Line 57: Line 57:


==References==
==References==
{{reflist}}
* [http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/canada/ww1/convert/ Converted civilian vessels]
* [http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/canada/ww1/convert/ Converted civilian vessels]
* [http://www.navy.gc.ca/project_pride/ships/ship_e.asp?shipNumber=58 Canadian Navy Heritage Project: Ship Technical Information]
* [http://www.navy.gc.ca/project_pride/ships/ship_e.asp?shipNumber=58 Canadian Navy Heritage Project: Ship Technical Information]
* [http://www.navy.gc.ca/project_pride/photo_archive/photo_archive_e.asp?section=1&category=H%20-%20L&title=58 Canadian Navy Heritage Project: Photo Archive]
* [http://www.navy.gc.ca/project_pride/photo_archive/photo_archive_e.asp?section=1&category=H%20-%20L&title=58 Canadian Navy Heritage Project: Photo Archive]
* [http://www.paulsilverstone.com/immigration/Primary/Aliyah/shiplist2.php Ships of the Aliyah Bet]
* [http://www.paulsilverstone.com/immigration/Primary/Aliyah/shiplist2.php Ships of the Aliyah Bet]
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2011}}


{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2011}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hmcs Hochelaga}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hmcs Hochelaga}}
[[Category:Patrol vessels of the Royal Canadian Navy]]
[[Category:Patrol vessels of the Royal Canadian Navy]]

Revision as of 13:20, 11 November 2012

HMCS Hochelaga
HMCS Hochelaga, with a 12-pounder visible forward.
History
Canada
NameHMCS Hochelaga
BuilderHawthorn & Company, Leith, Scotland
Launched1900
Acquired1914
Commissioned13 August 1915
Decommissioned31 March 1920
RenamedHaChayal Ha'Ivri, 1946
FateSeized by Royal Navy, 1946
General characteristics
Displacement628 tons
Length193 ft (59 m)
Beam28 ft (8.5 m)
Draught15 ft (4.6 m)
Speed12 knots (22 km/h)
Armament1 12-pounder

HMCS Hochelaga was a commissioned patrol vessel of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) that served in the First World War and postwar until 1920.

Service life

Originally the yacht Waturus, she was acquired by the RCN in 1914. After performing coastguard duties for a number of years, she was sold and became a Pictou-Charlottetown ferry. Sold again in 1942, she was eventually renamed HaChayal Ha'Ivri ("Jewish Soldier") and used in a 1946 attempt to carry Jewish immigrants to Palestine, now known as Israel, at the time controlled by the British. Departing Antwerp on 14 July 1946 and carrying some 550 passengers, she was seized off Haifa by the British destroyer HMS Saumarez.

References