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Allied Warships

HMCS Agassiz (K 129)

Corvette of the Flower class


HMCS Agassiz as seen in 1944 or 1945.

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 129 
Built byBurrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd. (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) 
Ordered14 Feb, 1940 
Laid down29 Apr, 1940 
Launched15 Aug, 1940 
Commissioned23 Jan, 1941 
End service14 Jun, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryFo'c's'le extended at the New York Navy Yard (New York, New York, U.S.A.) on 4 March 1944.
Decommissioned 14 June 1945.
Sold on 16 November 1945. 

Noteable events involving Agassiz include:

18 Jun, 1942
HMCS Agassiz (A/Lt.Cdr B.D.L. Johnson, RCNR) picks up 51 survivors from the American merchant Seattle Spirit that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-124 in the North Atlantic in position 50º24'N, 42º37'W.

3 Aug, 1942
The British merchant Lochkatrine is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-552 east of Cape Race in position 45º52'N, 46º44'W. The Canadian destroyer HMCS Hamilton (Lt.Cdr. N.V. Clark, RCNR) and the Canadian corvette HMCS Agassiz (A/Lt.Cdr. B.D.L. Johnson, RCNR) together pick up 81 survivors.

5 Jan, 1943
HMCS Agassiz (Lt.Cdr. B.D.L. Johnson, RCNR) commenced a refit at Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada.



Books dealing with this subject include:

Flower Class Corvette Agassiz, McKay, John and Harland, John, 1993


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