HMCS Sackville (K181) – Canada’s oldest warship
HMCS Sackville is the last of Canada’s 123 Flower-class corvettes, one of many convoy escort vessels built in Canada and the United Kingdom during World War II.
In 1988, Sackville was designated a National Historic Site of Canada, due to her status as the last Flower-class corvette known to exist.
- Builder: Saint John Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company Ltd.
- Laid down: 28 May 1940
- Launched: 15 May 1941
- Commissioned: 30 December 1941
- Decommissioned: 8 April 1946
- Displacement: 950 tons
- Length: 62.5 m (205 ft 1 in)
- Beam: 10 m (32 ft 10 in)
- Draught: 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in)
- Propulsion:
- Single shaft
- 2 x Scotch boilers,
- 4-cylnder. triple expansion steam engine, 2,750 hp
- Speed: 16 knots
- Complement: 85
- Armament:
- 1 BL 4 in (102 mm) Mk.IX gun
- 1 QF Mk.VIII 2-pounder gun on antiaircraft mount
- 2 x 20 mm Oerlikon AA cannon
- 2 x Lewis .303 cal twin machine guns
- 4 x Mk.II depth charge throwers
- 2 x depth charge rails with 40 depth charges
- 1 Mk 3 hedgehog