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|Ship country=Canada

|Ship flag= {{shipboxflag|Canada|naval-1911}}

|Ship name= ''Swift Current''

|Ship namesake=[[Swift Current]], [[Saskatchewan]]

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|Ship builder= [[Canadian Vickers|Canadian Vickers Ltd.]], [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]]

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|Ship identification= [[Pennant number]]: J254

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|Ship honours=[[Battle of the St. Lawrence|Gulf of St. Lawrence]] 1942<ref name=Gulf>{{cite web|title= Royal Canadian Warships that Participated in the Battle of the Gulf of St. Lawrence| url=http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/second-world-war/battlegulf/canwarship|publisher=Veterans Affairs Canada|access-date=13 October 2018|archive-date=27 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927080617/http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/history/second-world-war/battlegulf/canwarship|url-status=dead}}</ref>

|Ship fate=Transferred to [[Turkish Navy]] 1958

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* {{cite book |editor-last=Chesneau |editor-first=Roger |date=1980 |title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946 |publisher=Conway Maritime Press |___location=Greenwich, UK |isbn=0-85177-146-7}}

* {{Cite Colledge2006}}

* {{cite book |lastlast1=Douglas |firstfirst1=W.A.B. |last2=Sarty |first2=Roger |last3=Whitby |first3=Michael |title=A Blue Water Navy: The Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War, 1943–1945 Volume II, Part II |publisher=Vanwell Publishing |___location=St. Catharines, Ontario |date=2007 |isbn=978-1-55125-069-14}}

* {{cite book |last=Macpherson |first=Ken |date=1997 |title=Minesweepers of the Royal Canadian Navy 1938–1945 |publisher=Vanwell Publishing Limited |___location=St. Catharines, Ontario |isbn=0-920277-55-1}}

* {{cite book |lastlast1=Macpherson |firstfirst1=Ken |last2=Barrie |first2=Ron |date=2002 |title=The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910–2002 |edition=Third |publisher=Vanwell Publishing |___location=St. Catharines, Ontario |isbn=1-55125-072-1}}

* {{cite book |last=Sarty |first=Roger |date=2012 |title=War in the St. Lawrence: The Forgotten U-Boat Battles on Canada's Shores |publisher=Penguin Group |___location=Toronto |isbn=978-0-670-06787-9}}

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* {{cite web | url =http://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/2677.html | work = Uboat.net | title = HMCS ''Swift Current'' (J 254)}}

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