Ship Details

Kelowna (H.M.C.S.)

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Photo Credit: RCN Official Photo

 
 
Registry #1 J.261 (RCN) Registry #2 Registry #3
IMO# MMSI# VRN#
 
Name 1 1942 Kelowna (H.M.C.S.) Name 6
Name 2 1946 Condor (III) Name 7
Name 3 1950 Hung Hsin Name 8
Name 4 Name 9
Name 5 Name 10
 
Year Built 1942 Place Prince Rupert Area BC Country Canada
 
Designer (nk) Measurement (imp) 180' x 24' x 10'
Builder Prince Rupert Dry Dock & Shipyards Co. Measurement (metric) ?m x ?m x ?m
Hull Steel Displacement
Gross Tonnage 672 Type 1 Minesweeper, Bangor-class
Registered Tonnage Type 2
Engine 2400ihp engine (16kts) Engine Manufacture (nk)
Repower Propulsion Screw
Rebuilds Call Sign
Pendant  # J.261 Masters
 
Owner(s)
In 1942-1945 she was in Royal Canadian Navy service. In 1950 she was owned by a Chinese owner in Shanghai China.
 
Fate Registry closed Date 1950-00-00
 
Named Features
Significance of Name Named for the City of Kelowna.
 
Anecdotes
At the end of the Second World War this vessel was laid up in the ship boneyard at Bedwell Bay in Indian Arm BC. In about 1950 this vessel was broken up.
 
References
Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; Freeman, David J. (2000);
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