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Allied Warships

HMCS Battleford (K 165)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 165 
Built byCollingwood Shipyards Ltd. (Collingwood, Ontario, Canada) 
Ordered1 Feb, 1940 
Laid down30 Sep, 1940 
Launched15 Apr, 1941 
Commissioned31 Jul, 1941 
End service18 Jul, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryFo'c's'le extended at Sydney (Nova Scotia, Canada) on 31 July 1944.

Decomissioned 18 July 1945.
Became the Venezuelan Libertad in 1946.
Libertad was lost on 12 April 1949. 


Noteable events involving Battleford include:

8 Aug, 1942
HMCS Battleford (Lt. R.J. Roberts, RCNVR) picks up 46 survivors from the American merchant Kaimoku and 17 survivors from the British merchant Anneberg that were both torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-379 in the North Atlantic in position 56º30'N, 32º14'W.

HMCS Battleford also picks up 41 survivors from the British merchant Kelso that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-176 in the North Atlantic southeast of Cape Farewell in position 56º30'N, 32º14'W.

9 Aug, 1942
HMCS Battleford (Lt. R.J. Roberts, RCNVR) picks up 40 survivors from the British merchant Radchurch that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-176 in the North Atlantic in position 56º15'N, 32º00'W.

27 Dec, 1942
The German submarine U-356 was sunk in the North Atlantic north of the Azores, in position 43º30'N, 25º40'W, by depth charges from the Canadian destroyer HMCS St. Laurent (A/Cdr. G.S. Windeyer, RCN) and the Canadian corvettes HMCS Chilliwack (A/Lt.Cdr. L.L. Foxall, RCNR), HMCS Battleford (Lt. F.A. Beck, RCNVR) and HMCS Napanee (Lt. S. Henderson, RCNR). (see map)


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