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Navy	The Royal Canadian Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	Town
Pennant	I 93
Built by	Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down	4 Nov, 1918
Launched	21 Mar, 1919
Commissioned	24 Sep, 1940
End service	11 Jun, 1945
Loss position

History	Used as a training ship from early 1944. Decommissioned on 11 June 1945. Sold for scrap and sunk on 14 July 1945 while underway to the scrapyard. Commanding Officers: Lt.Cdr. Hugh Francis Pullen, RCN 24 September 1940 – 25 August 1941 Promoted to A/Cdr. on 1 July 1941 Lt. Clark Anderson Rutherford, RCN 26 August 1941 – 3 July 1942 ??? A/Lt.Cdr. Harold Victor William Groos, RCN 18 February 1943 – 17 November 1943 ??? A/Lt.Cdr. J.F. Watson, RCNVR 17 January 1944 >
Former name	USS Bancroft (DD 256)

HMCS St. Francis (I 93)