Allied Warships

HMCS Halifax (K 237)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 237 
Built byCollingwood Shipyards Ltd. (Collingwood, Ontario, Canada) 
Ordered 
Laid down26 Apr 1941 
Launched4 Oct 1941 
Commissioned26 Nov 1941 
End service12 Jul 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned 12 July 1945.
Became the merchantile Halifax (name not changed) in 1945.

Commanding Officers:
T/A/Lt.Cdr. Charles Copelin, RCNR
15 November 1941 – 6 February 1943
Promoted to Lt.Cdr. on 1 July 1942

T/Lt. Maurice Faulkman Oliver, RCNR
7 February 1943 – 21 June 1944

T/Lt.Cdr. Ross Malcolm Hanbury, RCNVR
22 June 1944 - ???

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Lt. L.E. Horne, RCNVR
4 September 1944 – 12 July 1945

 

Commands listed for HMCS Halifax (K 237)

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CommanderFromTo
1Charles Copelin, RCNR15 Nov 19416 Feb 1943
2T/Lt. Maurice Faulkman Oliver, RCNR7 Feb 194321 Jun 1944
3Ross Malcolm Hanbury, RCNVR22 Jun 1944???

4L. E. Horne, RCNVR4 Sep 194412 Jul 1945

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Noteable events involving Halifax include:


19 May 1942
HMCS Halifax (T/A/Lt.Cdr. C. Copelin, RCNR) picks up 3 survivors from the American trawler Foam that was sunk on 17 May 1942 by gunfire from the German submarine U-432 about 85 nautical miles south of Halifax.



On The Triangle Run
Lamb, James B.

Books dealing with this subject include:

On The Triangle Run, Lamb, James B., 2000


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