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HMCS DELIVERANCE
Auxiliary / Minesweeper
Deliverance, shortly before her loss Source: Wreck Diving Tales: Diving Nova Scotia's Shipwrecks by Allan P. Henneberry
Built at the Southern Salvage Company shipyard in Liverpool, NS, she was launched in 1914, replacing the old SS Coastguard. She had a length of 111 ft; Beam: 32 ft; Draught: 10.5 ft and displaced 280 tons. She was a twin-screwed vessel posed by two triple-expansion steam engines. Captained by Horatio Brannen, she was used for diving and salvage work. After the outbreak of the war she was requisitioned by the RCN and became a naval minesweeper and auxiliary vessel. On 15 Jun 1917, DELIVERANCE was steaming out of Halifax when she was truck and holed by the inbound Norwegian barque Regin near Portuguese Cove. In an attempt to save his ship, Brannen made to the village of Herring Cove where he hoped to beach the Deliverance. Just outside the mouth of Herring Cove, the DELIVERANCE, whose fires for the boiler had been put out by the incoming water, without power or steam, sank. All her crew made it off the stricken vessel, with Capt Brannen being the last - he came very close to being drawn down when the DELIVERANCE sank. (Source: Wreck Diving Tales by Allan P. Henneberry)
Commanding Officers
Captain Horatio Harris Brannen
They shall not be forgotten
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