Allied Warships

HMCS Niagara (I 57)

Destroyer of the Town class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassTown 
PennantI 57 
Built byFore River Shipbuilding Co. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down8 Jun 1918 
Launched31 Aug 1918 
Commissioned24 Sep 1940 
End service15 Sep 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Assigned torpedo training ship on 2 March 1944.

Decommissioned on 15 September 1945.
Sold for scrap on 13 January 1946.
Scrapped in 1947.

Commanding Officers:
Lt.Cdr. Edgar Lorne Armstrong, RNR
24 September 1940 – 2 July 1941

T/A/Lt.Cdr. Thomas Philip Ryan, RCNR
3 July 1941 – 23 February 1942

Lt.Cdr. Ronald Fraser Harris, RCNR
24 February 1942 – 4 October 1942

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Lt.Cdr. Ronald Fraser Harris, RCNR
15 October 1942 – 9 September 1943
Promoted to Cdr. on 1 July 1943
DSC awarded on 25 June 1943

A/Lt.Cdr. William Herbert Willson, RCN
10 September 1943 – 5 March 1944

T/Lt. Jack Cranfield Smyth, RCNR
6 March 1944 – 18 July 1944

Cdr. Raymond Butler Mitchell, RD, RCNR
19 July 1944 >

 
Former nameUSS Thatcher (DD 162)

Commands listed for HMCS Niagara (I 57)

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CommanderFromTo
1Edgar Lorne Armstrong, RCN24 Sep 19402 Jul 1941
2Thomas Philip Ryan, RCNR3 Jul 194123 Feb 1942
3Ronald Fraser Harris, RCNR24 Feb 19424 Oct 1942
4Ronald Fraser Harris, RCNR15 Oct 19429 Sep 1943
5William Herbert Willson, RCN10 Sep 19435 Mar 1944
6Jack Cranfield Smyth, RCNR6 Mar 194418 Jul 1944
7Raymond Butler Mitchell, RD, RCNR19 Jul 1944???

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Noteable events involving Niagara include:


1 Apr 1942
The British merchant Rio Blanco is torpedoed and sunk about 60 nautical miles east of Cape Hatteras in position 35º16'N, 74º18'W by the German submarine U-160. HMCS Niagara (Lt.Cdr. R.F. Harris, RCNR) later picks up 9 survivors.

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