Английская Википедия:HMCS Fortune
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Шаблон:Infobox ship imageШаблон:Infobox ship careerШаблон:Infobox ship characteristicsHMCS Fortune was a Шаблон:Sclass2 built for the Royal Canadian Navy. Named for Fortune Bay, located in Newfoundland, the vessel served in the Royal Canadian Navy for ten years before being sold for commercial purposes. Renamed MV Edgewater Fortune she saw service as a commercial yacht.
Design
The Bay class were designed and ordered as replacements for the Second World War-era minesweepers that the Royal Canadian Navy operated at the time. Similar to the Шаблон:Sclass2, they were constructed of wood planking and aluminum framing.[1][2]
Displacing Шаблон:Convert and Шаблон:Convert at deep load, the minesweepers were Шаблон:Convert long with a beam of Шаблон:Convert and a draught of Шаблон:Convert.[1][2] They had a complement of 38 officers and ratings.[1][note 1] The Bay-class minesweepers were powered by two GM 12-cylinder diesel engines driving two shafts creating Шаблон:Convert. This gave the ships a maximum speed of Шаблон:Convert.[2] The ships were armed with one Bofors 40 mm gun and were equipped with minesweeping gear.[3][1][2]
Service
Initially named Belle Isle,[4] Fortune was laid down on 24 April 1952 by Victoria Machinery Depot at Victoria with the yard number 51 and launched on 14 April 1953.[5][6] The minesweeper was commissioned on 3 November 1954[3] with the hull identification number 151.[5]
Fortune joined the Second Canadian Minesweeping Squadron after commissioning. In November 1955, the Second Canadian Minesweeping Squadron was among the Canadian units that took part in one of the largest naval exercises since the Second World War off the coast of California.[7]
After nine years of naval service, including acting as the flagship of the Second Canadian Minesweeping Squadron during the Cuban Missile Crisis,[8] Fortune was decommissioned on 28 February 1964.[3] Put up for auction by the Crown Assets Corporation,[9] the ship was then sold into mercantile service. She was initially known as Greenpeace Two and used in an unsuccessful attempt to stop nuclear testing in the Aleutians in November 1971.[5] The vessel was then refitted as the charter yacht MV Edgewater Fortune[3][10] and was used for short cruises along the coast of British Columbia. She was also occasionally used for fishing, and for school trips to learn about the wildlife on the coast and in the water. Subsequently, the ship was turned into a Шаблон:Convert floating home in Vancouver.[11]
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- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 1,3 Macpherson and Barrie, p. 271.
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 Gardiner and Chumbley, p. 49.
- ↑ 3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Colledge, p. 245
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 5,2 Macpherson and Barrie, p. 273.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite ship register
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite magazine
- ↑ Haydon (1993), p. 272
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
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