Allied Warships

HMCS St. Francis (I 93)

Destroyer of the Town class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassTown 
PennantI 93 
Built byBethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down4 Nov 1918 
Launched21 Mar 1919 
Commissioned24 Sep 1940 
End service11 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

???

T/A/Lt.Cdr. James Fraser Watson, RCNR
17 January 1944 > 

Former nameUSS Bancroft (DD 256)

Commands listed for HMCS St. Francis (I 93)

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CommanderFromTo
1Hugh Francis Pullen, RCN24 Sep 194025 Aug 1941
2Clark Anderson Rutherford, RCN26 Aug 19413 Jul 1942

3Harold Victor William Groos, RCN18 Feb 194317 Nov 1943

4James Fraser Watson, RCNR17 Jan 1944???

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