HMCS Malaspina

HMCS Malaspina.
History
Canada
Name	Malaspina
Builder	Dublin Dockyard, Dublin, Ireland
Laid down	1913
Launched	1913
Acquired	1914, as CGS Malaspina
Commissioned	15 December 1917, as HMCS Malaspina
Decommissioned	31 March 1920
Recommissioned	6 September 1939
Decommissioned	24 January 1945
Fate	Sold for scrap, 1946
General characteristics
Displacement	392 tons
Length	162 ft (49 m)
Beam	27 ft (8.2 m)
Draught	13 ft (4.0 m)
Speed	11 knots (20 km/h)
Complement	33
Armament	1 QF 6 pounder Hotchkiss

HMCS Malaspina was a Canadian government fisheries patrol vessel pressed into service with the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in 1917 and again in 1939 and which therefore saw service during the First World War and Second World War.

A sister ship of CGS Galiano, Malaspina was also taken over by the RCN, and both ships mixed civil duties with naval patrol and examination work, including minesweeping training and trials, for much of the war. While Galiano was lost in an October 1918 storm, Malaspina survived the war and returned to fisheries protection work in 1920. In 1939, following the outbreak of the Second World War, Malaspina was again commissioned in the RCN, serving as a patrol and examination vessel and subsequently as a training ship before being paid off in 1945 and sold for scrap in 1946.

References

• Converted civilian vessels
• Canadian Navy Heritage Project: Ship Technical Information
• Canadian Navy Heritage Project: Photo Archive
• Charles D. Maginley and Bernard Collin, The Ships of Canada's Marine Services, St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing, 2001, p. 90, ISBN 1-55125-070-5.