HMCS PORTE QUEBEC (185)
HMCS PORTE QUEBEC
The History of HMCS PORTE QUEBEC
Built in the 1950s, the Porte Class were designed specifically to operate the gates in anti-submarine booms. Later they were used primarily as peacetime training vessels for Naval Reserve personnel.
The Gate Class were named for gates that exist in the French fortifications of Quebec City and Louisburg.
Porte Quebec was based in Esquimalt BC. a until being paid off on 19 December 1996 and disposed of.
On 20 March 2013, it was reported that the Washington State Department of Natural Resources intended to "take custody of two derelict vessels anchored near Shannon Point in Anacortes, Skagit County, Washington." These vessels were the Porte de la Reine and Porte Québec.
HMCS PORTE QUEBEC Statistical Data
- Pendant: 185
- Type: GATE
- Class: PORTE
- Displacement: 429 tonnes
- Length: 125.5 ft
- Width: 26.33 ft
- Draught: 13 ft
- Speed: 11 kts
- Compliment: 3 Officers and 20 Crew
- Arms: 1 - 40 mm
- Builder: Burrard D.D. Co., Vancouver
- Keel Laid: 15-Feb-51
- Date Launched: 28-Aug-51
- Date Commissioned: 19-Sep-52
- Paid off: 01-Dec-96
Remarks
40 mm removed and vessel later used as training vessel. Refits increased bunking capacity to 47.
More Images
PORTE QUEBEC at Duntze Head, Esquimalt.
PORTE QUEBEC leading.