[4] The name "frigate" was suggested by Vice-Admiral Percy Nelles of the Royal Canadian Navy and was adopted later that year.

[4] 15 Canadian frigates were initially fitted with a single 4-inch gun forward but with the exception of HMCS Valleyfield, they were all eventually upgraded to the double mount.

[5] 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.

[4] 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.

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.

[2][3] 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.

[2] 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.