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Allied Warships

HMCS Gaspe (J 94)

Minesweeper of the Fundy class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeMinesweeper
ClassFundy 
PennantJ 94 
Built byMorton Engineering and Dry Dock Co. (Quebec City, Quebec, Canada) 
Ordered 
Laid down24 Jan, 1938 
Launched12 Aug, 1938 
Commissioned21 Oct, 1938 
End service23 Jul, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned 23 July 1945.
Sold to China in 1947 and renamed Sung Li. 

Noteable events involving Gaspe include:

14 Jan, 1945
HMCS Gaspe (Lt. A.J. Burke, RCNR) picks up 56 survivors of the British tanker British Freedom that was torpedoed and sunk east of Halifax, Canada in position 44º28'N, 63º28'W by the German submarine U-1232.


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