Allied Warships

HMCS Restigouche (H 00)

Destroyer of the C class

Navy	The Royal Canadian Navy
Type	Destroyer
Class	C
Pennant	H 00
Built by	Portsmouth Dockyard (Portsmouth, U.K.): Hawthorn Leslie & Co. (Hebburn-on-Tyne, U.K.)
Ordered
Laid down	12 Sep 1930
Launched	30 Sep 1931
Commissioned	15 Jun 1938
End service	6 Oct 1945
Loss position

History	Decommissioned on 6 October 1945. Sold to be broken up for scrap on 9 November 1945. Commanding Officers: Lt.Cdr. William Boyd Love Holms, RCN 15 June 1938 – 25 December 1939 Lt.Cdr. Horatio Nelson Lay, RCN 26 December 1939 – 23 June 1941 Promoted to Cdr. on 1 July 1940 OBE 1 January 1941 Lt. Desmond William Piers, RCN 24 June 1941 – 5 June 1943 Promoted to A/Lt.Cdr on 1 June 1942 DSC awarded on 5 June 1943 A/Lt.Cdr. David Walter Groos, RCN 6 June 1943 – 3 December 1944 Lt.Cdr. Philip Edwin Haddon, RCN 4 December 1944 – 15 April 1945 Lt.Cdr. Ronald James Herman, OBE, RCNVR 16 April 1945 – 6 October 1945
Former name	HMS Comet

Commands listed for HMCS Restigouche (H 00)

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	Commander	From	To
1	William Boyd Love Holms, RCN	15 Jun 1938	25 Dec 1939
2	Lt.Cdr. Horatio Nelson Lay, RCN	26 Dec 1939	23 Jun 1941
3	Desmond William Piers, RCN	24 Jun 1941	5 Jun 1943
4	A/Lt.Cdr. David Walter Gross, RCN	6 Jun 1943	3 Dec 1944
5	Philip Edwin Haddon, RCN	4 Dec 1944	15 Apr 1945
6	T/Lt.Cdr. Ronald James Herman, OBE, RCNVR	16 Apr 1945	6 Oct 1945

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