HMCS Crescent

	Crescent in 1945
History
United Kingdom
Name	Crescent
Builder	John Brown & Company, Clydebank
Yard number	607
Laid down	16 September 1943
Launched	20 July 1944
Identification	Pennant number: R16
Fate	transferred to Canada in January 1945
Canada
Name	Crescent
Acquired	loaned 1945, purchased 1951
Commissioned	10 September 1945
Decommissioned	1 April 1970
Identification	Pennant number: DDE 226
Motto	In virture cresco (I grow in virture)
Fate	Scrapped 1971
Badge	Navy blue, a crescent argent defamed with a maple leaf gules for Canada
General characteristics (as built)
Class and type	C-class destroyer
Displacement	1,900 long tons (1,930 t) standard; 2,535 long tons (2,576 t) full load;
Length	362.75 ft (110.57 m)
Beam	35.6 ft (10.9 m)
Draught	10 ft 6 in (3.20 m)
Propulsion	2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers,; Parsons single-reduction geared steam turbines,; 40,000 shp (30 MW), 2 shafts;
Speed	36 kn (67 km/h; 41 mph); 32 kn (59 km/h; 37 mph) (full load);
Range	4,675 nautical miles (8,658 km; 5,380 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph); 1,400 nautical miles (2,600 km; 1,600 mi) at 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph);
Complement	186
Sensors and ; processing systems	Mark 63 fire-control system
Armament	4 × QF 4.5 in (114 mm) L/45 Mk IV guns on mounts CP Mk.V; 2 × Bofors 40 mm L/60 guns on twin mount "Hazemeyer" Mk.IV;; 2 × single 2-pdr Mk VIII; 2 × 20 mm Oerlikon cannon;

HMCS Crescent was a C-class destroyer that was built for the Royal Navy but was transferred before completion and saw active service with the Royal Canadian Navy. She was one of 32 destroyers of that class built between 1943 and 1945 as part of the War Emergency Programme.

After discussions about Canada's current fleet, the United Kingdom agreed to lend the Royal Canadian Navy a flotilla of C-class destroyers in January 1945. The ships had yet to be constructed and the surrender of Japan ended the war before any of the eight could be finished. In the end, only two were transferred, Crescent and Crusader, both named after ships which had been previously transferred to Canada and renamed. This time, they kept their names as the transfer was only made permanent in 1951.

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