H.M.C.S. Ontario
C 53
1957
(NNCAD 2750)
- Class: Minotaur - 1 light cruiser of 1940
- Displacement: 8,800 tons
- Dimensions: 538 (pp) 555.5 (oa) x 62 x 16.5 ft.
- Machinery: 4-shaft geared turbines, S.H.P. 72,500 = 33 knots
- Armor: Main belt 3.25 in., deck 2 in., turrets 2 in., D.C.T. 4 in.
- Armament: 9-6in (3x3), 2-4in AA (1x2), 4-40mm AA (1x4) guns; 6-21 in. T.T. (2x3)
- Complement: 867
- Builder: Vickers-Armstrong, Newcastle-on-Tyne
- Laid Down: 22 Sep 1941
- Launched: 4 Feb 1943
- Completed: 22 Jun 1944
- Paid Off: 15 Oct 1958
- Service: HMCS Ontario was a light cruiser built for the Royal Navy as HMS Minotaur, but transferred on completion to the Royal Canadian Navy in Jul 1944 and renamed. After commissioning and work up, she sailed to join the 4th Cruiser Squadron in the Pacific Theatre. She was too late to see active service, but was employed in the operations at Hong Kong, Manila and in Japan. She returned home for refit, arriving at Esquimalt, BC on 27 Nov 1945. Postwar she participated in various naval exercises in the Pacific, Caribbean, and Atlantic. Her training cruises ranged around South America and to Australia and New Zealand before being retired in 1958. Partially scrapped at Vancouver and finally at Osaka in 1960.
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