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HMCS Shediac (K 110)

Corvette of the Flower class


HMCS Shediac in late 1944 or 1945.

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 110 
Built byDavie Shipbuilding and Repairing Co. Ltd. (Lauzon, Quebec, Canada) 
Ordered22 Jan, 1940 
Laid down5 Oct, 1940 
Launched29 Apr, 1941 
Commissioned8 Jul, 1941 
End service28 Aug, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryFo'c's'le extended at Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada) on 18 August 1944.

Decommissioned 28 August 1945.
Became the Dutch merchantile Jooske W. Vinke in 1954.
Broken up at Santander, Spain in 1966. 


Noteable events involving Shediac include:

12 May, 1942
HMCS Shediac (Lt. J.E. Clayton, RCNR) picks up 25 survivors from the British merchant Empire Dell that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-124 in the North Atlantic in position 53º00'N, 29º57'W.

HMCS Shediac also picks up 37 survivors from the British merchant Cristales that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-124 in the North Atlantic in position 52º55'N, 29º50'W.

27 Dec, 1942
HMCS Shediac (Lt. J.E. Clayton, RCNR) picks up 27 survivors from the British merchant Melrose Abbey that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-356 north-north-east of the Azores in position 47º30'N, 24º30'W.

28 Dec, 1942
HMCS Shediac (Lt. J.E. Clayton, RCNR) picks up 35 survivors from the British merchant Melmore Head that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-225 north of the Azores in position 43º27'N, 27º15'W.

4 Mar, 1943
The German submarine U-87 was sunk west of Leixoes, in position 41º36'N, 13º31'W, by depth charges from the Canadian corvette HMCS Shediac (Lt. J.E. Clayton, RCNR) and the Canadian destroyer HMCS St. Croix (Lt.Cdr. A.H. Dobson, DSC, RCNR). (see map)

6 Mar, 1943
HMCS Shediac (Lt. J.E. Clayton, RCNR) picks up survivors from the British merchant Fort Battle River that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-410 west of Gibraltar in position 36º33'N, 10º22'W.


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