Corvette of the Flower class
| Navy | The Royal Canadian Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 119 |
| Built by | Collingwood Shipyards Ltd. (Collingwood, Ontario, Canada) |
| Ordered | 1 Feb, 1940 |
| Laid down | 4 Mar, 1940 |
| Launched | 15 Sep, 1940 |
| Commissioned | 25 Nov, 1940 |
| End service | 2 Jul, 1945 |
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| History | Fo'c's'le extention at Liverpool (Nova Scotia, Canada) completed on 3 March 1944.
Decommissioned 2 July 1945.
Scrapped in Canada in January 1951.
Commanding Officers:
T/Lt.Cdr. William Edgar Slade Briggs, RCNR
21 November 1940 – 4 September 1942
DSC awarded on 13 June 1942
Lt. Harold Victor William Gross, RCN
5 September 1942 – 13 February 1943
Lt.Cdr. Reginald Jackson, RCNR
14 February 1943 - 16 April 1943
T/A/Lt.Cdr. J.E. Mitchell, RCNVR
17 April 1943 – 13 March 1944
Refitting
T/Skr./Lt. John Winston Sharpe, RCNR
8 May 1944 – 2 July 1945
Promoted to T/A/Lt.Cdr. on 1 July 1945 |
| Noteable events involving Orillia include: 24 Jun, 1941
HMCS Orillia (T/Lt.Cdr. W.E.S. Briggs, RCNR) picks up 37 survivors from the British merchant Kinross that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-203 in the North Atlantic south-east of Cape Farewell in position 55º23'N, 38º49'W. 10 Sep, 1941
HMCS Orillia (T/Lt.Cdr. W.E.S. Briggs, RCNR) begins to tow the damaged British merchant Tachee to Iceland. The Tachee was torpedoed and damaged the previous day by the German submarine U-652 north-east of Cape Farewell, Greenland in position 61º15'N, 41º05'W. 19 Sep, 1941
HMCS Orillia (T/Lt.Cdr. W.E.S. Briggs, RCNR) picks up 39 survivors from the British merchant Baron Pentland that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-372 north-east of Cape Farewell in position 61º15'N, 41º05'W. |
