Name Porte St. Louis Commissioned 29 August 1952 Fate Retired Launched 23 July 1952 Weight 506 tons Draft 4 m | Laid down 21 March 1951 Decommissioned 1 September 1995 Construction started 21 March 1951 Length 38 m Displacement 451,800 kg Builder Davie Shipbuilding | |
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Identification Pennant number YMG 183 | ||
HMCS Porte St. Louis was a Porte-class gate vessel of the Royal Canadian Navy.
Construction and career
Porte St. Louis was built by George T. Davie & Sons, Lauzon, being laid down on 21 March 1951 and launched on 23 July 1952. She was commissioned on 29 August 1952 and like her sister ships, took the name of one of the gates in the fortifications of Quebec or Louisbourg.
Though the class were designed to operate the gates in anti-submarine booms, there was little need for this during the Cold War and most of the class was placed in reserve in the late 1950s. The class was reactivated in the mid-1960s and used as training vessels for personnel of the Canadian Forces Naval Reserve. Porte St. Louis was based at Halifax, Nova Scotia until being paid off on 1 September 1995 and disposed of.