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HMCS Long Branch (sometimes spelled as Longbranch) was a modified Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She was used primarily as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was laid down as HMS Candytuft but was transferred to the RCN on 5 January 1944 before completion. She was named for Long Branch, Ontario, a village that was eventually amalgamated into Toronto, Ontario.

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  • HMCS Long Branch (en)
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  • HMCS Long Branch (sometimes spelled as Longbranch) was a modified Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She was used primarily as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was laid down as HMS Candytuft but was transferred to the RCN on 5 January 1944 before completion. She was named for Long Branch, Ontario, a village that was eventually amalgamated into Toronto, Ontario. (en)
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  • Long Branch (en)
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  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/HMCS_Long_Branch.jpg
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  • Atlantic 1944-45 (en)
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  • One Type 271 SW2C radar, one Type 144 sonar (en)
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  • *1 × BL Mk.IX single gun *1 × 2-pounder Mk.VIII single "pom-pom" *2 × 20 mm Oerlikon single *1 × Hedgehog A/S mortar *4 × Mk.II depth charge throwers *2 depth charge rails with 70 depth charges (en)
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  • Canada (en)
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  • Sold in 1947 as mercantile Rexton Kent II. Scuttled off Canada's Atlantic coast in 1966. (en)
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  • Pennant number: K487 (en)
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  • o/a (en)
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  • Long Branch (en)
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  • single shaft, 2× oil fired water tube boilers, 1 triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine, (en)
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  • at (en)
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  • HMCS Long Branch (sometimes spelled as Longbranch) was a modified Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War. She was used primarily as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was laid down as HMS Candytuft but was transferred to the RCN on 5 January 1944 before completion. She was named for Long Branch, Ontario, a village that was eventually amalgamated into Toronto, Ontario. (en)
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  • Sold in 1947 as mercantile Rexton Kent II. Scuttled off Canada's Atlantic coast in 1966.
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