HMCS Ungava (J149)
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HMCS Ungava was a Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She saw action in the Battle of the Atlantic and the Battle of the St. Lawrence. Following the war she was scrapped. She was named for Ungava Bay.
Design and description
A British design, the Bangor-class minesweepers were smaller than the preceding Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".s in British service, but larger than the Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". in Canadian service.[1][2] They came in two versions powered by different engines; those with a diesel engines and those with vertical triple-expansion steam engines.[1] Ungava was of the latter design and was larger than her diesel-engined cousins. Ungava was Script error: No such module "convert". long overall, had a beam of Script error: No such module "convert". and a draught of Script error: No such module "convert"..[1][2] The minesweeper had a displacement of Script error: No such module "convert".. She had a complement of 6 officers and 77 enlisted.[2]
Ungava had two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, using steam provided by two Admiralty three-drum boilers. The engines produced a total of Script error: No such module "convert". and gave a maximum speed of Script error: No such module "convert".. The minesweeper could carry a maximum of Script error: No such module "convert". of fuel oil.[1]
Ungava was armed with a single quick-firing (QF) Script error: No such module "convert"./40 caliber Mk IV gun mounted forward.[1]Template:Efn For anti-aircraft purposes, the minesweeper was equipped with one QF 2-pounder Mark VIII and two single-mounted QF 20 mm Oerlikon guns.[1][2] As a convoy escort, Ungava was deployed with deployed with 40 depth charges launched from two depth charge throwers and four chutes.[1][3]
Service history
Ungava was ordered as part of the 1939–40 shipbuilding programme. The vessel's keel was laid down on 24 April 1940 by North Vancouver Ship Repairs Ltd. at North Vancouver and the minesweeper was launched on 9 October 1940. She was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on 5 September 1941 at Vancouver.[4]
After working up, Ungava was assigned to Halifax Force. She remained with the unit until May 1943 when she was ordered to join Gaspe Force, escorting convoys through the Saint Lawrence River. Later that year in December, she transferred back to Halifax Force and served with that unit for another five months. In May 1944 she transferred to Sydney Force, spending the rest of the year with that unit before returning to Halifax Force in February 1945.[4]
Ungava served with the Halifax Force until April 1945, when she underwent a refit at Liverpool which lasted until May 1945. After returning from workups, she was used for miscellaneous duties along the eastern coast until being paid off on 3 April 1946.[4] She was sold to T. Harris of Barber, New Jersey to be broken up in 1947.[5][6]
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