HMCS ETTRICK (K254)
HMCS ETTRICK
The History of HMCS ETTRICK
Named after a river in Scotland, Ettrick was completed in July, 1943, as an RN ship and assigned to EG C-1, a Canadian escort group. On January 29, 1944, while undergoing a refit in Halifax, she was transferred to the RCN, and on completion of the refit on May 6 she was assigned to EG C-3. She arrived in Bermuda on September 30 for a month's working-up, and on her return made two round trips to Londonderry with EG C-3, before being transferred in October to EG 27, Halifax. She was employed locally until VE-Day, and on May 30, 1945, returned to the RN at Southampton. She was then converted to a combined operations H.Q. ship, though never employed as such, and in April, 1946, was laid up at Harwich. In 1953 she was broken up at Grays, Essex.
HMCS ETTRICK Statistical Data
- Pendant: K254
- Type: Frigate
- Class: RIVER Class EX-RN
- Displacement: 1445 tonnes
- Length: 301.5 ft
- Width: 36.6 ft
- Draught: 9 ft
- Speed: 19 kts
- Compliment: 8 Officers and 133 Crew
- Arms: 2-4" (1 x II), 4-20mm, Hedgehog
- Builder: John Crown & Sons Ltd., Sunderland, U.K.
- Keel Laid: 31-Dec-41
- Date Launched: 5-Feb-43
- Date Commissioned: 29-Jan-44
- Paid off: 30-May-45