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 (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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| - 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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| - 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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| - single shaft, 2× oil fired water tube boilers, 1 triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine, (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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