page_title: HMCS Crescent (R16)
section_title: Refit and return to service
hierarchical_section_title: HMCS Crescent (R16) / Operational history / Refit and return to service
caption_attribution_description: The Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Crescent (DDE 226) in 1958. Crescent was a C-class destroyer, converted to an anti-submarine frigate in 1956.
context_page_description: HMCS Crescent was a C-class destroyer that was built for the Royal Navy but was transferred before completion and saw active service with the Royal Canadian Navy. She was one of 32 destroyers of that class built between 1943 and 1945 as part of the War Emergency Programme.
  After discussions about Canada's current fleet, the United Kingdom agreed to lend the Royal Canadian Navy a flotilla of C-class destroyers in January 1945. The ships had yet to be constructed and the surrender of Japan ended the war before any of the eight could be finished. In the end, only two were transferred, Crescent and Crusader, both named after ships which had been previously transferred to Canada and renamed. This time, they kept their names as the transfer was only made permanent in 1951.
context_section_description: In 1953, Crescent underwent a conversion to destroyer escort. She was modernised for anti-submarine warfare and to serve as a fast fleet escort, similar to the Type 15 frigate of the Royal Navy, the second Canadian warship to so. The superstructure was extended aft, and the bridge was modified. Half of her gun armament was replaced by sonar, a  Mark 10 Limbo anti-submarine mortar and homing torpedoes. The project was considered the largest operation undertaken by a Canadian dockyard to that point. While under refit, Crescent was assigned to the Second Canadian Escort Squadron on 1 January 1955. The ship was recommissioned on 31 October 1955, followed by three months of extensive sea trials. In 1959, she was used as a test bed for the new variable depth sonar and was eventually permanently installed.
  Crescent served in an anti-submarine role until being paid off 1 April 1970 at Victoria. She was taken to Taiwan in 1971 to be broken up.
caption: Crescent after her 1956 conversion to an anti-submarine frigate.
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