HMCS Micmac was laid down at Halifax during the war but commissioned only in September 1945 after construction delays. Her career alternated between active periods and long refits, with service in 1945-47, 1949-51, and 1953-64. She survived economic pressure, civilian politics, and internal service politics, making her a bridge between wartime construction and the Royal Canadian Navy's postwar force. The eight-and-a-half-million-dollar Canadian build leads into the wider explanation of why Canada selected Tribal-class destroyers for domestic construction. Retaining a complex destroyer required institutional commitment alongside work on the hull and machinery.
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Micmac and the stop-start life of a postwar Canadian Tribal
Micmac's delayed completion, repeated refits, and intermittent commissions show how Canada sustained a domestically built Tribal through postwar technical and political pressures.