Royal Canadian Navy - Destroyer
DD / DDE 226 - HMCS Crescent
Type, Class:		Destroyer - DD / UK C-class planned,keel laid and launched as HMS Crescent / transferred to Royal Canadian Navy
Builder:		John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland, UK
STATUS:		Laid down: September 16, 1943 Launched: July 20, 1944 transferred to Royal Canadian Navy in 1945 Commissioned: September 10, 1945 Decommissioned: April 1, 1970 Fate: sold for scrap; scrapped in 1971
Homeport:		-
Namesake:		-
Ship’s Motto:		-
Technical Data: (Measures, Propulsion, Armament, Aviation, etc.)		see: INFO > Crescent / C - class Destroyer
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HMCS Crescent (DD / DDE 226): HMCS Crescent was a C-class destroyer that was built for the Royal Navy but was transferred before completion and saw active service with the Royal Canadian Navy. She was one of 32 destroyers of that class built between 1943 and 1945 as part of the War Emergency Programme. After discussions about Canada's current fleet, the United Kingdom agreed to lend the Royal Canadian Navy a flotilla of C-class destroyers in January 1945. The ships had yet to be constructed and the surrender of Japan ended the war before any of the eight could be finished. In the end, only two were transferred, Crescent and HMCS Crusader, both named after ships which had been previously transferred to Canada and renamed. This time, they kept their names as the transfer was only made permanent in 1951. After commissioning, Crescent was assigned to the west coast of Canada, arriving at Esquimalt, British Columbia in November 1945. She was given training duties until February 1949 when she was sent to China to safeguard Canadian interests during the Chinese Civil War. In 1953, Crescent underwent a major refit. She was modernised for anti-submarine warfare and to serve as a fast fleet escort, similar to the Type 15 frigate of the Royal Navy, the second Canadian warship to so. The superstructure was extended aft, and the bridge was modified. Half of her gun armament was replaced by sonar, a Limbo Anti Submarine Mortar Mark 10 and homing torpedoes. The project was considered the largest operation undertaken by a Canadian dockyard to that point. She emerged from the refit in 1956. In 1959, she was used as a test bed for the new Variable Depth Sonar and was eventually permanently installed. Crescent served in an anti-submarine role until being paid off 1 April 1970 at Victoria. She was taken to Taiwan in 1971 to be broken up. source: wikipedia
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