User:Tufaceous/Sandbox 4

Note - for development of content relating to the First World War CD building program; need to work on clarifying details about who orders, pays for, and receives the ships. (Recheck Milner, Tucker, etc.)

HMCS CD Type 1-100 (CD stood for "Canadian Drifter") were minesweeping armed drifter fishing boats built during the First World War for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). All launched in 1917, some 37 were apparently commissioned before war's end. Intended for minesweeping and patrol duties, a number of them served outside Canada between 1918 and 1919, including 14 at Gibraltar, 6 at Bermuda, and 5 in West Africa; a further 18 were loaned to the United States Navy at this time. As trawlers, they were well-suited to civilian use after the war, and some survived to serve in the Royal Navy during the Second World War.

External links & research resources

 * CD Type minesweeping trawlers
 * Canadian Navy Heritage Project: Ship Technical Information
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * 
 * Trawlers & drifters in Halifax Harbour
 * Paul H. Silverstone, The new Navy, 1883-1922, page 124, on Canadian drifters in USN service (names, dates, fates).
 * See also Tin Pots and Pirate Ships.
 * See also photographs under "drifter" on Canadian Navy heritage site, including construction photographs.