Allied Warships

HMCS Port Arthur (K 233)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 233 
Built byPort Arthur Shipbuilding Co. (Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada) 
Ordered 
Laid down28 Apr 1941 
Launched18 Sep 1941 
Commissioned26 May 1942 
End service11 Jul 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned on 11 July 1945.
Sold on 23 October 1945.
Broken up at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1948.

Commanding Officers:
T/Lt. Edward Theodore Simmons, DSC, RCNVR
30 April 1942 – 8 July 1943
Promoted to T/A/Lt.Cdr. on ???
DSO awarded on 1 May 1943

T/Lt. Kenneth Taylor Chisholm, RCNVR
9 July 1943 – 11 July 1945
Promoted to T/A/Lt.Cdr. on ???

 

Commands listed for HMCS Port Arthur (K 233)

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CommanderFromTo
1T/Lt. Edward Theodore Simmons, RCNVR30 Apr 19428 Jul 1943
2Kenneth Taylor Chisholm, RCNVR9 Jul 194311 Jul 1945

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Noteable events involving Port Arthur include:


19 Jan 1943
The British destroyer HMS Antelope (Lt.Cdr. E.N. Sinclair, RN) and the Canadian corvette HMCS Port Arthur (T/A/Lt.Cdr. E.T. Simmons, DSC, RCNVR) sank the Italian submarine Tritone (Cdr. Paolo Monechi / 26 dead.) near Bougie, Algeria in position 37º06'N, 05º22'E. The Italian submarine was on it's first war patrol. She was only commissioned on 10 October 1942. (see map)

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