HMCS CHEDABUCTO -Bangor class minesweeper, lost in collision with the cableship, Lord Kelvin on the St Lawrence River near Bic Island, west of Rimouski, Quebec on 21 October 1943. The minesweeper had a ship’s company of fifty five sailors, one officer was killed in the collision. CHEDABUCTO had been assigned to patrol an area of the […]
HMCS LOUISBURG
HMCS LOUISBURG, Flower class corvette was attacked and sunk by Italian aircraft while deployed to the Mediterranean in support of Operation TORCH on 6 February 1943.  Of her crew of eighty-four sailors, forty were killed in the attack. At the time LOUISBURG was one of seventeen RCN corvettes moved from the North Atlantic convoys to support […]
HMCS MARGAREE
HMCS MARGAREE -River class destroyer, was lost in collision with M/V Port Fairy on the North Atlantic on 22 October 1940. At the time of her loss she had 176 sailors in her ship’s company, 142 were killed with thirty-two survivors. MARGAREE had commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy only a few weeks earlier on […]
HMCS SKEENA
HMCS SKEENA -River class destroyer, grounded and lost during a gale in Reykjavik, Iceland on 25 October 1944. Of the destroyers ship’s company of 181, fifteen sailors were killed. SKEENA had been on patrol south of Iceland in a full gale with HMCShips QU’APPELLE and ST. LAURENT when the escort group was ordered to return […]
HMCS ST. CROIX
HMCS ST. CROIX, Town class destroyer was transferred to the RCN from the USN under the Lend/Lease agreement with the Royal Navy on 30 April 1040. Â Originally constructed in 1919 as USS MCCOOK. She was assigned to the Mid-Ocean Escort Group C-9 and while escorting a convoy in mid-North Atlantic she was struck by two […]