NAVY HISTORY - Ships - Light Cruisers
The Canadian West Coast became a ship building powerhouse during the Second World War for both Naval and merchant ships. Additional information regarding the construction, record and ultimate fate of these ships will be added to these pages as this project progresses with current information available through the links listed below.
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Ship Information 
HMCS UGANDA
Builder: Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Construction Started: 20 Jul 1939
Launched: 07 Aug 1941
Commissioned: 21 Oct 1944 from RN
Atlantic 1943, Sicily 1943, Salerno 1943, Mediterranean 1943, Japan
Decommissioned :15 June 1956
Paid Off Arrived at Osaka, Japan, on 6 February 1961 for scrapping
Other ShipsHMCS UGANDA
Displacement: 8,712 tonnes standard
Length:169.3 m (555 ft 5 in)
Beam: 18.9 m (62 ft 0 in)
Draught: 5.3 m (17 ft 5 in)
Propulsion: 4 x oil fired three-drum Admiralty-type boilers four-shaft geared turbines four screws 54,100 kW (72,500 shp)
Speed: 33 kn (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Compliment: 730
Armarments:
3 × triple BL 6 in (152 mm) Mk XXIII guns
4 × twin QF Mk XVI 4 in (102 mm) guns
4 × quadruple Mk VII 2-pounder (40 mm) guns
10 × twin Mk II 20 mm/70 cal guns
2 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
- CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum Joseph M. Lenarcik, Assistant Curator. Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada
- Government of Canada - Navy. https://www.canada.ca/en/navy/services/history/ships-histories.html
PHOTO CREDIT - HMCS Uganda - http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_UGANDA_C66.htm
- Chesneau, Roger, ed. (1980). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-146-7.
- Colledge, J. J.; Warlow, Ben (2006) [1969]. Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of all Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy (Rev. ed.). London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-281-8.
- Douglas, W.A.B.; Sarty, Roger; Whitby, Michael (2002). No Higher Purpose: The Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War, 1939–1943 Volume II, Part I. St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing. ISBN 1-55125-061-6.
- Macpherson, Ken; Barrie, Ron (2002). The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910–2002 (Third ed.). St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing. ISBN 1-55125-072-1.
- https://www.canada.ca/en/navy/services/history/ships-histories/alberni.html
- http://www.forposterityssake.ca/Navy/HMCS_PRINCE_DAVID_F89.htm.
- https://www.nauticapedia.ca/dbase/Query/Shiplist5.php?id=21417
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Prince_David_(F89)
Cite Article : Reference: www.navyhistory/sections/Ships/Minesweepers/HMCS_Courtenay.html
Source: NA
