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HMCS Thiepval
HMCS ''Thiepval'' was one of twelve Battle class Naval trawlers used by the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). After seeing service on Canada's east coast at the end of the First World War, ''Thiepval'' was transferred to the west coast, where she spent the remainder of her career. In 1924, ''Thiepval'' visited the Soviet Union and Japan as part of the support efforts for a round-the-world flight attempt. ''Thiepval'' struck a rock and sank off the British Columbia coast in 1930, and her wreck has since become a popular attraction for divers.
==Design and construction==
''Thiepval'' formed part of the Canadian naval response to Admiralty warnings to Canada about the growing German U-boat threat to merchant shipping in the western Atlantic. Intended to augment anti-submarine patrols off Canada's east coast, the RCN's Battle class trawlers were modelled on contemporary North Sea trawlers, since the standard types of Canadian fishing vessels were considered unsuitable for patrol work. The resulting design was a -long vessel with a beam of , a draft, and a top speed of , which made it roughly comparable to the Royal Navy's Castle class trawlers. The 12-pounder gun that was the Battle class trawlers' main armament was considered to be the smallest gun that stood a chance of putting a surfaced U-boat out of action, and they also carried a small number of depth charges.〔Gibert Norman Tucker, (Naval Service of Canada: Volume I: Origins and Early Years'' ), (Ottawa: King's Printer, 1952), 253-257.〕〔Ken Macpherson and John Burgess, ''The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910–1993 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships'', (St. Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell Pub., 1994), 25. ISBN 0-920277-91-8〕
Built by shipyards on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River at a cost of some $191,000 each, the trawlers were named after battles of the Western Front. Construction took longer than expected, and the ships entered service relatively late in the war.〔 ''Thiepval'', named after the 1916 Battle of Thiepval Ridge, was built by the Kingston Shipbuilding Company in Kingston, Ontario. Launched in 1917, she was commissioned into the RCN on 24 July 1918.〔
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