High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Guysborough was a turbine-engined Bangor-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy. She was built by North Vancouver Ship Repairs, North Vancouver and launched on 21 July 1941. She was loaned to the Royal Canadian Navy and was torpedoed and sunk at 6:50pm on 17 March 1945 by U-868 while escorting a convoy in the Bay of Biscay. 51 of her crew died, with 40 survivors being rescued by HMS Inglis some hours later.