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HMCS ALDER LAKE J480
Lake Class Minesweeper
These were copies of the Admiralty type, 126-foot wooden-hulled minesweepers, of which 24 were completed in east-coast yards for the RN. Of the 16 for which orders were placed by the RCN, only 10 were completed as warships, VJ-Day having intervened, and these were transferred to the USSR. The 3 on which work was stopped were completed for civilian use. The remaining 3 were apparently never begun. - "Ships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910-1981" by Ken Macpherson and John Burgess
HMCS Alder Lake J480 - transferred to USSR 20 September 1945 as T-196
HMCS ALDER LAKE J480 Click on the above photo to view a larger image Source: Midland and Area-Portraits of the Past Posted by René Hackstetter
HMCS ALDER LAKE J480 RCN Photo # O-726-6 Courtesy of the Comox RCAF Museum Click on the above photo to view a larger image
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