HMCS Cape Breton (ARE 100)

HMCS Cape Breton was a Royal Canadian Navy Cape-class maintenance ship. Originally built for the Royal Navy as HMS Flamborough Head in 1944, she was transferred in 1952. Upon her commissioning she was the second ship to bear the name Cape Breton. She served operationally from 1953–1964, when she was laid up. She was used as a floating machine shop until the late-1990s, before being sold for use as an artificial reef off the coast of British Columbia.

For other ships with the same name, see HMCS Cape Breton.
"HMS Flamborough Head" redirects here. Not to be confused with HMS Flamborough Prize or HMS Flamborough.

HMS Flamborough Head underway in coastal waters.
History
United Kingdom
NameFlamborough Head
BuilderBurrard Dry Dock, Vancouver
Laid down5 July 1944
Launched7 October 1944
Commissioned2 May 1945
Out of service1952
FateSold to Canadian Government, 1952
Canada
NameCape Breton
NamesakeCape Breton
Acquired31 January 1953
Commissioned16 November 1959
Decommissioned10 February 1964
Motto"Le chance ne change pas la course" (Chance changes not our course)
Honours and
awards
  • Arctic, 1944
  • Normandy, 1944
  • Atlantic, 1944–45
FateSunk as artificial reef, 20 October 2001, near Nanaimo, Vancouver Island
BadgeAzure, a spur gear argent charged with a device consisting of three ermine spots conjoined in the center, one pointing to the chief, once to the dexter base and once to the sinister base in trefoil fashion sable, and between them issuing from the center, three thistle blooms coloured proper.
General characteristics
Class and typeCape-class maintenance ship
Displacement8,580 long tons (8,718 t)
Length134.6 m (441 ft 7.2 in)
Beam17.4 m (57 ft 1.0 in)
Draught6.1 m (20.0 ft)
PropulsionOil-fired triple expansion steam engines, 2 Foster Wheeler boilers, 1 shaft, 6,000 hp (4,474 kW)
Speed11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph)
Complement270
Armament16 × 20 mm guns
Aircraft carriedcan handle Sikorsky HO4S
Aviation facilitieshelicopter pad
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