HMCS Malaspina was a coastal patrol vessel constructed in 1913 by Dublin Dockyard in Dublin, Ireland. She measured approximately 162.4 feet (49.5 meters) in length between perpendiculars, with a beam of 27.1 feet (8.3 meters) and a draught of 13.1 feet (4.0 meters). The ship had a gross register tonnage (GRT) of 392 and was divided into twenty watertight compartments by transverse and longitudinal bulkheads, enhancing her seaworthiness and safety. Powering her was a triple expansion steam engine producing 1,350 indicated horsepower, driving a single screw propeller, which allowed a maximum speed of 14.5 knots (27 km/h). Originally launched on July 6, 1913, and completed in August of the same year, Malaspina was designed as a fisheries patrol vessel for the Canadian government along the West Coast of Canada. She was a sister ship to CGS Galiano and shared duties that included fisheries patrol, examination, minesweeping training, and trials. Her early service involved alternating between civic fisheries protection and naval duties, especially during World War I, when she was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on December 1, 1917. During the war, her role included intercepting contraband in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and she was armed with a single QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss gun, with a crew of 33. After World War I, Malaspina was paid off on March 31, 1920, and returned to the Department of Transport’s Marine Service for fisheries patrol work. With the outbreak of World War II, she was re-commissioned in 1939, serving primarily along the West Coast as a patrol and examination vessel, and later as a training ship aboard HMCS Royal Roads. She was paid off in 1945, sold in 1946, and became part of the Powell River Breakwater in British Columbia. Sinking around 1949, she was subsequently raised and scrapped in 1951 by Wagner, Stein & Green in Victoria, British Columbia. Malaspina’s service record highlights her versatility and importance in Canadian maritime patrol and fisheries protection during both world wars.

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