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HMCS Drumheller (K 167)

Corvette of the Flower class


Photograph taken by Charles James Sadler, RCNVR. First Class Stoker, Official number V-4963, serving in the Canadian destroyer HMCS Columbia.

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 167 
Built byCollingwood Shipyards Ltd. (Collingwood, Ontario, Canada) 
Ordered1 Feb, 1940 
Laid down4 Dec, 1940 
Launched5 Jul, 1941 
Commissioned13 Sep, 1941 
End service11 Jul, 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Fo'c's'le extention at the New York Navy Yard (New York, New York, U.S.A.) completed on 15 January 1944.

Decommissioned 11 July 1945.
Sold on 30 August 1946.
Broken up at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1949.

Commanding Officers:
T/Lt.Cdr. George Humphrey Griffiths, RCN
13 September 1941 – 15 October 1942
Promoted to T/A/Cdr. on ???

T/Lt. Leslie Perman Denny, RCNR
16 October 1942 – 20 August 1943

T/A/Lt.Cdr. Anthony Hubert Gleadow Storrs, RCNR
21 August 1943 – 26 September 1943

T/Lt. Leslie Perman Denny, RCNR
27 September 1943 – 7 December 1943

T/Lt. H.R. Beck, RCNR
7 December 1943 – 11 July 1945 


Noteable events involving Drumheller include:

11 May, 1943
HMCS Drumheller (T/Lt. L.P. Denny, RCNR) picks up 19 survivors from the British merchant Ford Concord that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-456 about 350 nautical miles north of the Azores in position 46º05'N, 25º20'W.

13 May, 1943
The German submarine U-753 was sunk in the North Atlantic, in position 48º37'N, 22º39'W, by depth charges from the Canadian corvette HMCS Drumheller (T/Lt. L.P. Denny, RCNR), the British frigate HMS Lagan (Lt.Cdr. A. Ayre, RNR) and depth charges from a Canadian Sunderland aircraft (RCAF Sqdn. 423/G). (see map)


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