[5] The name "frigate" was suggested by Vice-Admiral Percy W. Nelles of the Royal Canadian Navy and was adopted later that year.
[5] 15 Canadian frigates were initially fitted with a single 4-inch gun forward but except for HMCS Valleyfield, they were all eventually upgraded to the double mount.
[6] For underwater targets, the River-class frigate was equipped with a Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar and depth charge rails aft and four side-mounted throwers.
[5] River-class frigates were the first Royal Canadian Navy warships to carry the 147B Sword horizontal fan echo sonar transmitter, in addition to the irregular ASDIC.
After making a round trip to Bermuda in October, Glace Bay was paid off on 17 November 1945 at Sydney, Nova Scotia and laid up at Shelburne.
[3] When the barquentine Esmeralda (BE-43) was launched in 1953, the frigate was renamed Baquedano and continued to serve with the Chilean Navy before being paid off in 1960 and scrapped in 1968.