Ship Details

Tillsonburg (H.M.C.S.)

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Photo Credit: RCN Official Photo

 
 
Registry #1 K.496 (RCN) Registry #2 (China Registry) Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1944 Pembroke Castle (H.M.S.) Name 6
Name 2 1944 Tillsonburg (H.M.C.S.) Name 7
Name 3 1946 Ta Ching Name 8
Name 4 1947 Chiu Chin Name 9
Name 5 1951 Kao-An Name 10
 
Year Built 1944 Place Port Glasgow Area Scotland Country UK
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 251.6' x 26.6' x 10'
Builder Ferguson Brothers Ltd., Port Glasgow UK Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement 1010
Gross Tonnage Type 1 Corvette, (Castle Class ex-RN)
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 2750hp 4-cylinder TE engine with water-tube boilers. Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # K.496 Masters
 
Owner(s)
She was launched as 12/02/1944. She was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy as H.M.C.S. Tillsonburg and commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy 29/06/1944 to 15/02/1946. She was sold in 1946 as the Ta Ching (Chinese registry). She was renamed as Chiu Chin in 1947. In 1951 she was taken over by the Chinese Nationalist Government as Kao-An.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 0000-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name
 
Anecdotes
This vessel had a complement of 8 officers and 112 other ranks. This vessel was acquired in 1944 as one of 12 vessel in exchange for twelve Canadian-built Algerine class minesweepers. This vessel was capable of 16.5 knots with an endurance of 9500 nm at 10 knots.
 
References
Macpherson, Ken and Marc Milner (1993); Macpherson, Ken and John Burgess (1981); Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa; Freeman, David J. (2000)
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