Contact Admin. She saw action in the Battle of the Atlantic and the Invasion of Normandy. She was named for Minas Basin. A British design, the Bangor -class minesweepers were smaller than the preceding Halcyon -class minesweepers in British service, but larger than the Fundy class in Canadian service.
Minas was feet She had a complement of 6 officers and 77 enlisted. Minas had two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, each driving one shaft, using steam provided by two Admiralty three-drum boilers. Minas was ordered on 23 February [6] as part of the β40 building programme. The ship was launched on 22 January The minesweeper was assigned to Sydney Force as a local escort. In January , she transferred to Newfoundland Force , remaining with them until November that year.
Several survivors later died of the phosgene gas they had inhaled when their ship was hit. Minas joined She joined escort group W-4 in December. On 20 February , Minas left Halifax with three of her sisters, travelling to Great Britain as part of Canada's contribution to the invasion of Normandy.
She arrived in March and was assigned to the 31st Minesweeping Flotilla , an all-Canadian flotilla of minesweepers taking part in the D-Day invasions. Departing Plymouth on 12 April, the 31st Minesweeping Flotilla began operations in the mouth of the Gironde estuary on 14 April.
They completed their duties on 16 April, unmolested by the Germans. While returning to Plymouth, the flotilla encountered a German trawler and captured it.
