Robert Aubern Stuart MacNeil OBE, RCNR
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| Ranks
Retired: 12 Aug 1945 Decorations
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Warship Commands listed for Robert Aubern Stuart MacNeil, RCNR
| Ship | Rank | Type | From | To |
| HMCS Dauphin (K 157) | T/Lt. | Corvette | 14 May 1941 | 17 Jan 1943 |
| HMCS Sorel (K 153) | T/Lt.Cdr. | Corvette | 20 Feb 1943 | 23 Nov 1943 |
| HMCS Columbia (I 49) | T/Lt.Cdr. | Destroyer | 24 Nov 1943 | 30 Mar 1944 |
| HMCS Wallaceburg (J 336) | T/Lt.Cdr. | Minesweeper | 3 May 1944 | 9 Jan 1945 |
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Events related to this officer
Corvette HMCS Dauphin (K 157)
11 Feb 1942
HMCS Dauphin (T/Lt. R.A.S. MacNeil, RCNR) picks up 30 survivors from the Norwegian merchant Heina that was torpedoed and sunk south of Iceland in position 56°10'N, 21°07'W by the German merchant U-136.
26 Jul 1942
At 07.57 hours on 26 July 1942 German U-boat U-607 attacked convoy ON-113 about 300 nautical miles east of Cape Race and observed two hits on a freighter and heard one detonation further away. At 08.11 hours the same day German U-boat U-704 attacked the same convoy and saw one detonation. It seems that both U-boats had hit the British merchant Empire Rainbow. The master, 38 crew members and eight gunners were picked up by the British destroyer HMS Burnham (A/Cdr. T. Taylor, RN) and the Canadian corvette HMCS Dauphin (T/Lt. R.A.S. MacNeil, RCNR) and landed at St. John's, Newfoundland.
Destroyer HMCS Columbia (I 49)
25 Feb 1944
HMCS Columbia (Lt.Cdr R.A.S. MacNeil, OBE, RCNR) was heavily damaged when owing to faulty radar & heavy fog, she rammed a cliff without grounding in Motion Bay, Newfoundland on 25 February 1944, not repaired and decommissioned 17 March 1944.
Photographs taken by Charles James Sadler RCNVR, Stoker, Service NO. V-4963 HMCS Columbia / HMCS Avalon / HMCS Joliette
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