the shipyards on the Great Lakes so all the frigates built in Canada were built in dockyards along the west coast or along the St. Lawrence River. In all Canada ordered the construction of 60 frigates including ten for the Royal Navy that transferred two to the United States Navy. War service After working up in Bermuda at the end of 1944, she was assigned to escort group EG 25 based in Derry. She made one trip to Gibraltar escorting a convoy, but for the rest of the war in Europe, she remained primarily in the waters around the United Kingdom. On 7 March 1945, alongside and , she sank the in St. George's Channel using depth charges and hedgehogs. While performing an attack on a suspected target on 11 April 1945, Strathadam was damaged when one of her hedgehogs exploded prematurely, killing six of her crew. At the end of May, she returned to Canada to undergo a tropicalization refit in preparation for service in the southern Pacific Ocean. This refit was begun in July and required the installation of water-cooling and refrigeration abilities and changing the camouflage pattern. The refit was cancelled in August after the surrender of Japan and Strathadam was paid off 7 November 1945. She was laid up at Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Postwar service Strathadam was sold to Uruguayan interests in 1947 before ending up in the hands of the nascent Israeli Navy in 1950. She was renamed Misgav and given the new pennant number K-30. In August 1953, while making her way back from naval exercises in the Mediterranean Sea with the rest of the Israeli fleet, a series of emergency distress calls were received from the Greek islands after the Ionian earthquake had hit the region. The fleet requested permission from headquarters and were ordered to provide aid. The crew of Misgav aided the inhabitants of Kefalonia in recovering from the disaster. She was discarded by the Israeli Navy. References Notes References Macpherson, Ken; Burgess, John. The ships of Canada's naval forces 1910–1981 : a complete pictorial history of Canadian warships. Collins: Toronto, 1981. River-class frigates of the Royal Canadian Navy 1944 ships