HMCS Leaside (K 492)

Navy	The Royal Canadian Navy
Type	Corvette
Class	Castle
Pennant	K 492
Built by	Smith's Dock Co., Ltd. (South Bank-on-Tees, U.K.)
Ordered	19 Jan 1943
Laid down	23 Sep 1943
Launched	10 Mar 1944
Commissioned	21 Aug 1944
End service	16 Nov 1945
History	Sold in 1946 and converted to mercantile Coquitlam. Decommissioned on 16 November 1946. Sold into merchant service in 1947 and renamed Coquitlam. Renamed Glacier Queen in 1950 and stripped for use as a floating restaurant. Sank in Cook Inlet, Alaska, 8 November 1978, but was raised, towed to sea and scuttled in January 1979.
Former name	HMS Walmer Castle

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	Commander	From	To
1	Lt. Gordon Guthrie Keith Holder, RCNVR	3 Jul 1944	15 Jun 1945

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