High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! HMS Providence (J325) was an Algerine-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy. Providence was ordered as HMCS Forrest Hill in 1942, and laid down at the Toronto yards of Redfern Construction Ltd on 17 July 1943. She was renamed Providence in June 1943, and was launched on 27 October 1943. Her conversion to a minesweeper was completed on 15 May 1944. She served during the last years of the Second World War.