HMCS Patrician was a Thornycroft M class

Thornycroft M class destroyer

The Thornycroft M or Mastiff class were a class of six destroyers completed for the Royal Navy during 1914-16 for World War I service. They were quite different from the Admiralty-designed ships of the Admiralty M class class, although based on a basic sketch layout provided by the Admiralty from...

 destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy

Royal Canadian Navy

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Built by Thornycroft & Company

John I. Thornycroft & Company

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, Southampton

Southampton

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, she was launched on 5 June 1916 as and served in the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 in World War I

World War I

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She was decommissioned after the war but was reactivated in 1920 and outfitted for transfer to the Royal Canadian Navy

Royal Canadian Navy

The history of the Royal Canadian Navy goes back to 1910, when the naval force was created as the Naval Service of Canada and renamed a year later by King George V. The Royal Canadian Navy is one of the three environmental commands of the Canadian Forces...

. She was commissioned in the RCN on 1 November 1920 and renamed HMCS Patrician.

HMCS Patrician departed for Halifax, Nova Scotia one month later in the company of her sister ship (ex-) and the cruiser (ex-). The three ships were offered by the Royal Navy to replace the RCN's and .

HMCS Patrician saw service with the RCN through the 1920s and was decommissioned and scrapped in 1929.