| Navy | The Royal Canadian Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 223 |
| Built by | Yarrows Ltd. (Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 14 Dec 1940 |
| Launched | 26 Jun 1941 |
| Commissioned | 10 Feb 1942 |
| End service | 15 Jul 1945 |
| History | Named after the town of Timmins, Ontario. Fo'c's'le extention at Libverpool (Nova Scotia, Canada) completed on 16 October 1944. Decommissioned 15 July 1945. |
Commands listed for HMCS Timmins (K 223)
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| Commander | From | To | ||
| 1 | T/Lt. James Albert Brown, RCNR | 10 Feb 1942 | 18 Aug 1942 | |
| 2 | Lt.Cdr. Arthur Truman Morrell, RCNR | 19 Aug 1942 | 30 Aug 1942 | |
| 3 | T/Lt. James Mitchell Gillison, RCNR | 31 Aug 1942 | 11 Jan 1943 | |
| 4 | T/Lt. Nevill Spencer Charles Dickinson, RCNVR | 12 Jan 1943 | 19 Mar 1943 | |
| 5 | T/Lt.Cdr. John Hubert Smith MacDonald, RCNR | 20 Mar 1943 | 18 Apr 1943 | |
| 6 | T/A/Lt.Cdr. Herries Stirling Maxwell, RCNVR | 19 Apr 1943 | 29 Jun 1944 | |
| 7 | T/Lt. Ralph Gordon James, RCNVR | 2 Sep 1944 | 15 Dec 1944 | |
| 8 | T/Lt. John Kincaid, RCNR | 16 Dec 1944 | 15 Jul 1945 | |
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Notable events involving Timmins include:
21 Nov 1942
HMCS Timmins (T/A/Lt.Cdr. J.M. Gillison, RCNR) and HMCS Minas (T/Lt. W.F. Wood, RCNR) together pick up 60 survivors from the British merchant Empire Sailor that had been torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-518 about 200 nautical miles southeast of Sydney, Nova Scotia in position 43°53'N, 55°02'W. However, several survivors had been poisoned by the phosgene gas carried as cargo and twenty of them died at sea or shortly after arriving at Halifax.
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