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''For the , see '' HMCS ''Fredericton'' was a of the Royal Canadian Navy. She was ordered from Marine Industries Ltd. in Sorel, Quebec and laid down on 22 March 1941. She was launched on 2 September 1941 and commissioned on 8 December 1941. She was named after the community of Fredericton, New Brunswick. ''Fredericton''s design was slightly revised from the earlier ''Flower''-class ships. Corvettes built before 1941 behaved poorly in heavy seas so her length and weight were increased. She was also outfitted with a water-tube boiler which was more powerful and stable than earlier models. Her armament was limited to a gun forward and a pom-pom gun aft gun as well as depth charge throwers which suited her escort duties and anti-submarine capabilities. Later on she was outfitted with the improved Hedgehog anti-submarine device. She was manned by a crew of 85 which included six officers. Her unofficial emblem was a badge emblazoned with a ''flying tiger dropping a depth charge on a U-boat''. ''Fredericton'' served during the Battle of the Atlantic from 1941 to 1945. During 1942 she escorted oil tankers from the Caribbean to New York City. From 1943 to 1945 she escorted convoys in the Western Atlantic and then later on across the Atlantic to Northern Ireland. She was decommissioned on 14 July 1945. Some question as to her final disposition lies with a possible error in Lloyd's Register. Either she was sold for scrap in 1946 or ended up as a Panamanian-flagged Japanese whaler which was used up until 1979. ==Royal Canadian Navy corvettes== (詳細はWorld War II, the Royal Canadian Navy greatly desired to build naval class warships. However, Canadian ship building yards were not capable of building such vessels and at the time it was impossible to buy such ships from Britain as its capacity was taken up entirely by its own defence needs. It was decided that a modified whale catcher design could be built by Canadian yards which could later be traded with Britain for destroyers. The barter scheme eventually failed but the Canadian Navy had already ordered the whale catchers. Sixty-four ships were originally ordered and these were built between 1939–1940, becoming the basis of the RCN corvette fleet.〔Macpherson, Milner, p. 11.〕 It was initially expected that the corvette fleet would be superseded by a line of larger frigates and destroyers but the narrowness of Montreal's Lachine Canal prevented larger ships from getting to Atlantic Ocean from Great Lake shipyards.〔Johnston, pp. 25–6.〕 The corvette fleet stayed. Eventually 123 were built, the largest class of ships ever used by the Canadian Navy.〔Macpherson, Milner, p. 80.〕 The corvettes were dubbed the after a similar British design. The British gave them names of flowers such as and . The Canadian Navy decided to name their ships after Canadian towns. While they should have been called the , a line of American destroyers was already using that name so the term "flower" was retained for Canadian corvettes.〔Milner, pp. 36–8.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMCS Fredericton (K245)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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