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HMCS Trillium (K 172)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 172 
Built byCanadian Vickers Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) 
Ordered20 Jan, 1940 
Laid down20 Feb, 1940 
Launched26 Jun, 1940 
Commissioned31 Oct, 1940 
End service27 Jun, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryFo'c's'le extended at the Boston Navy Yard (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) on 10 June 1943.

Decommissioned and returned to the Royal Navy on 25 June 1945.
Became the merchantile Olympic Runner in 1950, Otori Maru 10 in 1956 and Kyo Maru No. 16 in 1959.
Last in Lloyd's Register for 1972 / 1973. 

Former nameHMS Trillium

Noteable events involving Trillium include:

21 Apr, 1941
HMCS Trillium (Lt.Cdr. R.F. Harris, RCNR) picks up 24 survivors from the British merchant Empire Endurance that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day by the German submarine U-73 south-west of Rockall in position 53º05'N, 23º14'W. (see map)

22 Feb, 1943
HMCS Trillium (Lt. P.C. Evans, RCNR) picks up 47 survivors from the British merchant Empire Redshank that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-606 in the North Atlantic in position 46º53'N, 34º32'W.

23 Feb, 1943
HMCS Trillium (Lt. P.C. Evans, RCNR) picks up 58 survivors from the American merchant Chattanooga City that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day by the German submarine U-606 in the North Atlantic in position 46º53'N, 34º32'W.

HMCS Trillium also picks up 53 survivors from the American merchant Expositor that was torpedoed and heavily damaged the previous day by the German submarine U-606 in the North Atlantic in position 46º53'N, 34º32'W.


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