Before completion, the ship was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy and renamed HMCS Kincardine, which used the corvette as a convoy escort for the rest of the war.

Though the Admiralty would have preferred Loch-class frigates, the inability of many small shipyards to construct the larger ships required them to come up with a smaller vessel.

This powered one vertical triple expansion engine that drove one shaft, giving the ships a maximum speed of 16.5 knots (30.6 km/h; 19.0 mph).

[2] The ships carried 480 tons of oil giving them a range of 6,200 nautical miles (11,500 km; 7,100 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph).

[4] The Type 147B was tied to the Squid anti-submarine mortar and would automatically set the depth on the fuses of the projectiles until the moment of firing.

The corvette was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy on 19 June 1944 at Middlesbrough as HMCS Kincardine, named for the town in Ontario that sits on shores of Lake Huron, with the pennant number K490.

[8][9][note 5] The merchant ship, which had a gross register tonnage of 1,516 tons, was owned by Les Cargos Fruitiers Cherifiens SA and had her port of registry in Casablanca.