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Allied Warships

HMCS Napanee (K 118)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 118 
Built byKingston Shipbuilding Co. (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) 
Ordered7 Feb, 1940 
Laid down20 Mar, 1940 
Launched31 Aug, 1940 
Commissioned12 May, 1941 
End service12 Jul, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryFo'c's'le extended at Montreal (Quibec, Canada) on 19 october 1943.

Decommissioned 12 July 1945.
Scrapped in Canada in June 1946. 


Noteable events involving Napanee include:

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).

HMCS Napanee also picks up 25 survivors from the British merchant King Edward that was one of U-356's last vivtims.

HMCS Napanee also picks up 18 survivors from the Dutch merchant Soekaboemi that was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-356. The damaged Soekaboemi was later sunk by U-441. (see map)


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