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La Dieppoise
Posted: Tue May 04, 2010 7:52 pm
by john sefton
Patrol craft P655. ex HMCS CHALEUR Canadian "La Dunkerquoise" Class, transferred to the French flag on 10th October 1954. Built Port Arthur, launched 21st June 1952. Commissioned 13th November 1954. Tonnage: 370 full load, 479 standard displacementir. Length 164ft, beam 30.2 feet, draught 9.2 feet, complement of 35.
Log Book October 1982
Wallis and Fortuna SG386
Re: La Dieppoise
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 8:18 pm
by aukepalmhof
Built as a wooden mine sweeper under yard No 107 by Port Arthur Shipbuilding, Port Arthur, Canada for the Canadian Royal Navy.
08 June 1951 keel laid down.
21 June 1952 launched as the HMCS CHALEUR (MCB 144), one of the Bay Class. She was christened by the wife of the Vice Admiral J.G.Knowlton.
Displacement 390 standard, 412 ton full load, dim. 46.3 x 8.5 x 2.4m. (draught), length bpp 42.7m.
Powered by two locomotive type V12 aluminium diesel engines, 2,400 hp, twin shafts, speed 16 knots.
Armament 1 – 40mm Bofors gun.
Crew 38.
18 June 1954 commissioned.
She was not very long used by the Canadian Navy already 30 September 1954 decommissioned and sold to France.
13 November 1954 commissioned in Halifax in the French Navy under the name La DIEPPOISE (M730).
18 March till 26 November underwent a refit in Brest.
Then stationed in the Indian Ocean, made voyages to India and Bali, Australia and New Zealand.
01 July 1973 reclassified as a patrol vessel renumbered in P 655.
The last 10 years of her career was she based at Nouméa, New Caledonia.
05 February 1979 she grounded on a reef near Tabou Amedee Lighthouse, was refloated by the tug NOUMÉA.
09 July 1987 decommissioned.
19 January 1988 her hull was sunk by explosives near the Tabou Amedee Lighthouse, New Caladonia to create a diving site.
Wallis & Futuna 1981, 60f sg386, scott?
Source: Various web-sites.
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