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| Career (Canada) |
 Royal Canadian Navy |
| Name: |
Chaleur |
| Builder: |
Port Arthur Shipbuilding, Port Arthur |
| Laid down: |
8 June 1951 |
| Launched: |
21 June 1952 |
| Commissioned: |
18 June 1954 |
| Decommissioned: |
30 September 1954 |
| Fate: |
Sold to France as La Dieppoise. |
| General characteristics |
| Class and type: |
Bay class minesweeper |
| Displacement: |
390 tons |
| Length: |
152 ft (46 m) |
| Beam: |
28 ft (8.5 m) |
| Draught: |
8 ft (2.4 m) |
| Propulsion: |
diesel |
| Speed: |
16 knots |
| Complement: |
38 |
| Armament: |
1 40mm Bofors |
HMCS Chaleur (MCB 144) was a Bay class minesweeper that served in the Royal Canadian Navy for three and a half months in 1954 before being sold to the French Navy to become La Dieppoise.
She was eventually replaced by HMCS Chaleur (MCB 164).
