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HMCS Kamloops (K 176)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 176 
Built byVictoria Machinery Depot Co. Ltd. (Victoria. British Columbia, Canada) 
Ordered14 Feb, 1940 
Laid down29 Apr, 1940 
Launched7 Aug, 1940 
Commissioned17 Mar, 1941 
End service27 Jun, 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Fo'c's'le extention at Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island, Canada) completed on 25 April 1944.

Decommissioned 27 June 1945.
Sold on 19 October 1945.

Commanding Officers:
T/Lt. J.M. Gillison, RCNR
17 March 1941 – 31 October 1941

T/Lt. P.J.B. Watts, RCNR
1 November 1941 – 4 February 1942

T/Lt. I.W. McTavish, RCNR
5 February 1942 – 27 March 1942

A/Lt.Cdr. Jordan Hamilton Marshall, RCNVR
28 March 1942 – 22 August 1942

T/Lt. Nevill Spencer Charles Dickinson, RCNVR
23 August 1942 – 10 January 1943

Refitting

T/A/Lt.Cdr. J.H.S. MacDonald, RCNR
17 February 1943 – 1 March 1943

T/Lt. D.M. Stewart, RCNR
2 March 1943 – 5 November 1943

T/Lt. S.D. Taylor, RCNR
6 November 1943 – 20 December 1943

T/Lt. D.M. Stewart, RCNR
21 December 1943 – 27 June 1945
Promoted to T/A/Lt.Cdr. on ??? 


Noteable events involving Kamloops include:

9 Oct, 1943
The British frigate HMS Duckworth (Cdr. Hugh Lloyd-Williams, DSO, RNVR) and the Canadian corvette HMCS Kamloops (T/Lt. D.M. Stewart, RCNR) together pick up 54 survivors from the American merchant Yorkmar that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-645 about 475 nautical miles south of Iceland in position 56º38'N, 20º30'W.


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