HMCS MORESBY (112)
HMCS MORESBY
The History of HMCS MORESBY
HMCS Moresby (MSA 111) was an Anticosti class minesweeper that served in the Canadian Forces from 1989-2000.
Formery Joyce Tide, commercial oil-rig supply vessel. After the Kingston-class was commissioned, Moresby was identified as surplus and decommissioned in 2000.
HMCS MORESBY Statistical Data
- Pendant: 112
- Type: Minesweeper Auxiliary
- Class: Anticosti
- Displacement: 1076 tonnes
- Length: 58.27 m / 191 ft
- Width: 13.14 m / 43 ft
- Draught: 5.18 m / 17 ft
- Speed: 13.5 kts
- Compliment: Officers and Crew
- Arms: None
- Builder: Allied Shipbuilders Ltd., Vancouver
- Keel Laid:
- Date Launched: 1973
- Date Commissioned: May 89
- Paid off: 2000