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

Noteable events involving Halifax include:

19 May, 1942
HMCS Halifax (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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