HMCS Ettrick

There has been only one vessel named Ettrick in the Royal Canadian Navy.

HMCS Ettrick (K254) / River-class Frigate

Named for a Scottish river, Ettrick was completed in July 1943 as an RN ship and assigned to EG C-1, a Canadian escort group. On 29 January 1944 while undergoing a refit in Halifax, she was transferred to the RCN, and on completion of the refit on 6 May she was assigned to EG C-3. She arrived in Bermuda on 30 September for a month’s working up, and on her return made two round trips to Londonderry with EG C-3 before being transferred in October to EG 27, Halifax.

She was employed locally until VE Day, and, on 30 May 1945, returned to the RN at Southampton. She was then converted to a combined operations HQ ship, though never employed as such, and in April 1946 was laid up at Harwich. In 1953 she was broken up at Grays, Essex.

• Builder: John Crown & Sons Ltd., Sunderland, UK
• Date laid down: 31 December 1941
• Date launched: 5 February 1943    
• Date commissioned rcn: 29 January 1944
• Date paid off: 30 May 1945
• Displacement : 1 468.2 tonnes
• Dimensions : 91.9 m x 11.2 m x 2.7 m
• Speed: 19 knots
• Crew: 141
• Armament: one 4-inch, one 12-pdr.

Battle honours:

• Atlantic 1943-45
• Gulf of St. Lawrence 1944