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Design and descriptionThe Bangor class was initially to be a scaled down minesweeper design of the {{sclass-|Halcyon|minesweeper|4}} in Royal Navy service.[3][4] However, due to the difficulty procuring diesel engines led to the small number of the diesel version being completed.[4] The ships displaced {{convert|592|LT|t}} standard and {{convert|690|LT|t}} fully loaded. They were {{convert|162|ft|m|1}} long with a beam of {{convert|28|ft|m|1}} and a draught of {{convert|8|ft|3|in|m|2}}.[4][5] However, the size of the ship led to criticisms of their being too cramped for magnetic or acoustic minesweeping gear.[4] This may have been due to all the additions made during the war with the installation of ASDIC, radar and depth charges.[3] The Bangor class came in two versions. Transcona was of the diesel-powered version, being equipped with a 9-cylinder diesel engine driving two shafts that produced {{convert|2000|bhp|kW|-2|lk=in}}. This gave the ship a maximum speed of {{convert|16.5|kn|km/h|lk=in}}. The vessels carried {{convert|65|LT|t}} of oil.[4] The vessels had a complement of 6 officers and 77 ratings.[5] The Canadian diesel-powered Bangors were armed with a single quick-firing (QF) 12-pounder 12 cwt gun mounted forward.[4][5]{{efn|name=gun nomenclature}} The ships were also fitted with a QF 2-pounder Mark VIII gun aft and were eventually fitted with single-mounted QF 20 mm Oerlikon guns on the bridge wings.[6] For those ships assigned to convoy duty, they were armed with two depth charge launchers and two chutes for the 40 depth charges they carried.[4][6] Service historyTranscona was ordered as part of the 1940–41 building programme. The minesweeper's keel was laid on 18 December 1940 by Marine Industries Ltd. at Sorel, Quebec. The ship was launched on 26 April 1941 and Transcona was commissioned at Sorel on 25 November 1942. She was the last Bangor to join the Royal Canadian Navy.[7]After commissioning, Transcona escorted {{HMCS|Provider|1942|6}} to Halifax, Nova Scotia and remained at the shipyard there from 22 December 1942 to 6 March 1943 due to engine defects. Once those were repaired, the minesweeper performed her workups and was assigned to the Western Local Escort Force (WLEF) in April. In June, WLEF's escorts were divided into groups and Transcona was placed in W-2.[7] She remained with that unit until May 1944 when the minesweeper was transferred to Halifax Force, a local escort force based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. On 23 December, with sister ship {{HMCS|Clayoquot|J174|2}} and the frigate {{HMCS|Kirkland Lake|K337|2}}, Transcona sailed from Halifax on a pre-convoy escort submarine sweep of the swept channel near the Sambro Light Vessel. While the convoy was forming up, the {{GS|U-806}} fired a torpedo which hit Clayoquot, sinking the minesweeper. Transcona dropped four Carley floats for the survivors while searching for the submarine. Ten minutes after Clayoquot{{'}}s sinking, a torpedo detonated close to Transcona. The submarine was not found and the corvette {{HMCS|Fennel|K194|2}} collected survivors.[8] From February to May 1945, Transcona was under refit at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. She remained with this unit until June, after which the ship was deployed on various local tasks until her decommissioning. The minesweeper was paid off on 31 July 1945 at Sydney, Nova Scotia and laid up.[7] On 1 September 1945, Transcona was transferred to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Marine Division and renamed French.[7]{{efn|name=RCMP}} The ship remained in service at Halifax until 1960.[9] The vessel was turned over to the Crown Assets Corporation, sold for scrap on 2 February 1961 and broken up at LaHave, Nova Scotia later that year.[10][11] ReferencesNotes{{notes| notes ={{efn | name = gun nomenclature | "Cwt" is the abbreviation for hundredweight, 20 cwt referring to the weight of the gun. }}{{efn |name=RCMP |Colledge has the ship transferred to the RCMP in 1950. }} }} Citations1. ^{{cite web|title= Battle Honours | url=http://www.britainsnavy.co.uk/Battle%20Honours/A%20Battle%20Honour%20Date.htm#1900|work=Britain's Navy|accessdate=25 Jan 2019}} 2. ^{{Cite web|title =HMCS Transcona|url = http://naval-museum.mb.ca/mbships/hmcs-transcona/|publisher=Naval Museum of Manitoba|access-date =5 August 2016}} 3. ^1 Brown, p. 124 4. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 Chesneau (1980), p. 61 5. ^1 2 Macpherson and Barrie (2002), p. 185 6. ^1 Macpherson (1997), p. 58 7. ^1 2 3 Macpherson and Barrie (2002), p. 188 8. ^Darlington and McKee, pp. 197–99 9. ^Haycock, p. 172 10. ^Colledge, p. 640 11. ^{{csr|register=MSI|id=6114228|shipname=Transcona|accessdate=5 August 2016}} Sources
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