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Allied Warships

HMCS Barrie (K 138)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 138 
Built byCollingwood Shipyards Ltd. (Collingwood, Ontario, Canada) 
Ordered1 Feb, 1940 
Laid down4 Apr, 1940 
Launched23 Nov, 1940 
Commissioned12 May, 1941 
End service26 Jun, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryFo'c's'le extended at Liverpool (Nova Scotia, Canada) on 17 April 1944.

Decomissioned on 26 June 1945.
Became the merchantile Gasestado in 1947 and the Argentinian Capitan Canepa from 1957 until 1972.  


Noteable events involving Barrie include:

9 Feb, 1942
The British merchant Empire Fusilier is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-85 southeast of St.Johns, Newfoundland, Canada in position 44º45'N, 47º25'W. HMCS Barrie (Chief Skipper G.N. Downey, RCNR) later picks up 38 survivors.

3 Sep, 1944
The British merchant Livingston is torpedoed and sunk northeast of Louisburg, Nova Scotia, Canada in position 46º15'N, 58º05'W by the German submarine U-541. The Canadian corvette HMCS Barrie (Lt. W.D. Stokvis) later picks up 14 survivors.


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