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For Posterity's Sake 
A Royal
Canadian Navy Historical Project
HMCS
ALGOMA K127
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HMCS Algoma K127 |
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Laid down: 18
Jun 1940
Launched: 17
Dec 1940
Commissioned: 11
Jul 1941
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Paid off: 06
Jul 1945
Fate: Sold to
Venezuela in 1946. Paid off in 1962 - final disposition unknown
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Built by Port Arthur
Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., she was commissioned at Montreal on 11
Jul 1941. Algoma arrived at Halifax 18 Jul 1941. She escorted her
first convoy to Iceland in Sep 1941, and was thereafter employed as
an ocean escort until the end of May 1942. During this period she
was involved in two major convoy actions: ONS.67 (Feb 1942) and
ONS.92 (May 1942). In Jul 1942, after six weeks' repairs at
Liverpool, N.S., she joined WLEF. In Oct 1942, allocated to duties
connected with the invasion of North Africa, she left for Britain
with convoy SC.107, which lost fifteen ships to U-boat attacks.
Algoma served under RN orders the next few months, escorting convoys
between Britain and the Mediterranean. In Feb 1943 she was
based at Bone, Algeria, but returned to St. John's via the U.K in on
30 Apr 1943 in company with HMCS Calgary K231 as escort for convoy
ON.179. She served briefly with Western Support Force which,
based at St. John's, existed only during May 1943, and with WLEF,
before joining Quebec Force in Jun 1943. Algoma escorted Quebec-Labrador
convoys until mid-November, when she was lent to EG C-4 for one
round trip to the U.K. She arrived at Liverpool, N.S., late in Dec
1943 for a major refit, which included extending her fo'c's'le
and was not completed until mid-Apr 1944. In May she joined EG C-5
and arrived in Bermuda on 01 June 1944 to work up. Returning to St. John's
on 27 Jun 1944, she made three round trips to the U.K. before joining EG
41 (RN), Plymouth Command, in Sep 1944. She was employed on patrol
and escort duties in the Channel until the end of May 1945, when she
returned to Canada and was paid off 06 Jul 1945 for disposal at Sydney.
In 1946 she was sold to the Venezuelan Navy, being renamed
Constitucion, and was not discarded until 1962.
Photos and Documents
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Commanding Officers |
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Lt John
Harding, RCNR - 11 Jul 1941 - 30 Aug 1943
A/LCdr John Philip Fraser, RCNR - 01 Sep 1943 - 10 Oct 1943
A/LCdr
Harding, RCNR - 11 Oct 1943 - 03 Feb 1944
Lt Ernest
Roy
Hammond, RCNR - 17 Mar 1944 - 26 Mar 1944 |
Lt Steven
Barry
Kelly, RCNVR - 27 Mar 1944 - 05 Apr 1944
Lt Louis Frederick
Moore, RCNR - 06 Apr 1944 - 09 Aug 1944
Lt W.
Davenport, RCNR - 10 Aug 1944 - 24 Aug 1944
Lt John Norrison Finlayson, RCNR - 25 Aug
1944 - 06 Jul 1945 |
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In memory of those who have crossed the bar
They shall not be
forgotten |
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A-B
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Bonner,
Frederick Arthur
____-2006
Served in Algoma as an AB
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Brown,
William Forbes Robertson
1923-2012
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C-D
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Campbell, Percival
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Coulter,
James Robert Boardman
1920-2004
Drafted to Algoma 20 Jul 1942 as
Slt, RCNVR
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E-F
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Fraser,
James Philip
c1904-____
2nd Commanding Officer
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M-N |
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Maddever,
William John
____-1996
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McKechnie,
James
Alexander
1921-2005
Drafted to Algoma on 13 Jul 1944
as Lt, RCNVR |
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O-P |
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Parker,
Warren
____-2005 |
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Q-R |
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Roscoe,
Stanley
1921-2010 |
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W-X |
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Wale,
Henry
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Former Crew Members
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Brown,
George Gordon, Slt, RCNVR - 26 Jul 1943
Denny,
Roy Campbell, Lt, RCNVR - 11 Jul 1941
Edwards,
Richard McBride, Slt, RCNVR - 10 Apr 1944
Fitchett,
George William, Slt, RCNVR - 29 Apr 1942
Ford,
David, Wt (E), RCNR - 06 May 1944
Harding,
John, Lt, RCNR - 26 May 1941 (Stand by) CO
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Herbert,
Robert James, Wt (E), RCNR - 27 Jun 1941 (Stand by) / 11 Jul 1941
Kelly,
Steven Barry, Lt, RCNVR - 12 Feb 1944
McLaughlin,
Thomas Crane, Lt, RCNVR - Jan 1942
Ridley,
Frederick Neville, Lt, RCNVR - 04 Apr 1944
Russel,
Hugh Dunbar Sutherland, Slt, RCNVR - 27 Apr 1941 (Stand by) / 11 Jul
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Squires,
William Robert, Slt, RCNVR - Jan 1942
Sullivan,
Dennis Wesley, Lt, RCNVR - 15 Feb 1944
Thompson,
Francis Wilfred, Lt, RCNVR
Vallens,
Frederick William, Ch/Skpr, RCNR - 11 Jul 1941
Wong,
Get Chung, OS - Sep 1944 |
Photos and
Documents
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HMCS Algoma K127 entering Halifax
Harbour
Source:
Government
of Nova Scotia Visual Archives H.B.
Jefferson NSARM accession no. 1992-304 / 43.1.4 116
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HMCS Algoma on convoy escort
duty
From the collection of ABLR
Duncan Keith McDougall
Courtesy of Keith McDougall
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HMCS Algona K127 (left, furthest from camera) and HMCS Trillium K172
From the collection of Robert
Macklem
Courtesy of Kelly Macklem
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The Oriental Touch
Newspaper article on two Chinese
sailors from Montreal who served in the RCN
OS Get Chung Wong (HMCS Algonma)
and OS Victor Check Foo Hum
Crow's Nest newspaper - Sep 1944
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