![]() HMCS Suderöy VI (foreground) and HMCS Llewllyn, 1944
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Name | HMCS Suderöy VI |
Launched | 1929 & 1930 |
Commissioned | June 1941 |
Decommissioned | August 1945 |
Fate | Returned to owners, October 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Minesweeper |
Tonnage | 252 GRT |
Length | 115 ft (35 m) |
Beam | 24 ft (7.3 m) |
Draught | 13 ft (4.0 m) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 9 knots (10 mph; 17 km/h) |
Complement | 4 officers & 25 crew |
After the fall of Norway to Nazi Germany on 10 June 1940, the Norwegian whale factory ship Suderøy and her whale catchers, Suderøy IV (J03), Suderøy V (J04), Suderøy VI (J05) and Star XVI were ordered to sail to Halifax from Hampton Roads, where they had taken refuge. In June 1940, at Halifax, Suderøy IV, V and VI were chartered from the Norwegian government in exile by the Royal Canadian Navy, converted and commissioned as minesweepers.