HMCS Arras
 HMCS Arras, 1940
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| History | |
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  Canada | |
| Name | Arras |
| Namesake | Battle of Arras |
| Builder | Kingston Shipbuilding Company, Kingston, Ontario |
| Launched | 15 September 1917 |
| Commissioned | 5 June 1918 |
| Decommissioned | 1 April 1919 |
| Commissioned | 11 September 1939 |
| Decommissioned | 1 April 1946 |
| Fate | Broken up at Halifax, 1957 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Battle class naval trawler |
| Displacement | 357 long tons (363 t) |
| Length | 130 ft (40 m) |
| Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
| Draught | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
| Speed | 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Armament | 1 × QF 12-pounder (76-mm) gun |
HMCS Arras was one of twelve Battle class naval trawlers that saw service with the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). Named after the Battle of Arras, she was built by the Kingston Shipbuilding Company, in Kingston, Ontario, and was commissioned on 8 July 1918. Decommissioned on 1 April 1919, she became a fisheries protection vessel, and often served as a hospital ship for the fishing fleet on the Grand Banks. During the Second World War, Arras returned to RCN service, and was re-commissioned on 11 September 1939. Initially stationed in Halifax, Nova Scotia as a gate vessel, in mid-1941 she was sent to Sydney, Nova Scotia, where she served as Gate Vessel 15. While the ship was in Sydney, a November 1943 fire caused extensive damage. Decommissioned in April 1946, Arras was broken up at Halifax in 1957.[1]
References
- ^ Ken Macpherson and John Burgess, The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910-1993 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships, (St. Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell Pub., 1994), 23. ISBN 0-920277-91-8