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HMCS
ANNAPOLIS I04
Clemson
Class Destroyer (USN)
Town
Class Destroyer (RCN)
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HMCS ANNAPOLIS I04 after having
one stack and one boiler removed
DND / RCN Photo Click on
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Laid down: 04
Jul 1918
Launched: 29
Sep 1919
Commissioned: 25
Jul 1919
Paid
off: 1922
Re-commissioned:
1940
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Paid
off: 24 Sep 1940
Transferred to RCN : 24
Sep 1940
Commissioned: 24
Sep 1940
Paid off: 04
Jun 1945
Fate: Broken up at
Boston 1945
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Commissioned on 25 Jul 1919 as USS
MACKENZIE, she served three years with the
U.S. Pacific Fleet before being laid up in reserve at Mare Island,
California, in 1922. Briefly commissioned again during the first
year of the Second World War, she arrived at Halifax on 24 Sep 1940 and there, four days later, was transferred to the RCN. A month
later she burned out her No. 4 boiler and as a result had her aftermost funnel removed. Owing to reduced endurance,
ANNAPOLIS never
crossed the Atlantic, but spent her entire RCN career with Western
Local Escort Force (WLEF). In Jun 1943, she became a member of EG
W-8 and later, for a short time, W-10. In Apr 1944, she was relegated
to training duties at HMCS CORNWALLIS, also functioning as escort to
RN submarines between Halifax and Digby, N.S. Paid off at Halifax,
04 Jun 1945, she left later that month in tow for Boston, where she
was broken up.
Photos
and Documents Ship's
company photos
Commanding Officers
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A/Cdr Harry. Kingsley,
RCN - 24 Sep 1940 - 10 Oct 1940
Cdr Colin Degge Donald,
RCN - 11 Oct 1940 - 28 Mar 1941
LCdr Frank Creighton Smith,
RCNR - 29 Mar 1941 - 01 Jul 1942
A/LCdr Geoffrey Huntley Davidson,
RCN - 02 Jul 1942 - 04 Oct 1942
LCdr R.F. Harris,
RCNR - 05 Oct 1942 - 14 Oct 1942 |
A/LCdr Geoffrey Huntley Davidson,
RCN - 15 Oct 1942 - 03 Dec 1942
LCdr A.G. Boulton,
RCNVR - 04 Dec 1942 - 02 Mar 1944
LCdr Hubert Charles Walmesley,
RCNR - 03 Mar 1944 - 15 Apr 1945
Skpr/Lt Clyde Courtenay Clattenburg, RCNR - 16 Apr
1945 - 04 Jun 1945 |
In memory of those who have crossed the bar 
They shall not be
forgotten
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Agar, Robert
J.
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Annesley,
John C.L.
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Baker, J. Aubrey
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Basil, Jim
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Benoit,
Francis G.
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Bennett,
George M.
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Botham,
Robert J.
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Brown,
Wilfred L.
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Brownlow,
Daniel P.Mc.
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Campbell,
Claude R.
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Cummings,
Kealey
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Darveau, J.H.
Maurice
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Donald, Colin Degge
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Fletcher,
Jackson
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Goodale,
William
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Grossman,
Henry
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Hawley,
James W.
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Higgs,
Herbert G.
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Keating,
Joseph B.
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Jewett,
George S.
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Kingsley, Harry
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Knight, Herbert
R.
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Lotocki,
Myron W.
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MacDonald,
James W.
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MacKenzie,
Charles A.
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MacLean,
Cameron R.
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Malin,
Richard R.G.
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McLeod, Cathel
J.
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Miller,
Lloyd K.
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Neilson,
Andrew L.
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Oliver,
Owen J.
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Osborne,
Harry
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Reid,
John McC.
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Salt,
Henry S.
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Spurrell,
Walter
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Stevens, John
F.
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Stuart,
George E.
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Timbrell,
Robert W.
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Williams,
Charles T.
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Williams,
James J.
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Former Crew Members
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Barber,
John Delury, Lt, RCNVR
Barker,
James Price, Lt, RCNVR - 28 Jul 1941
Beauchemin,
Marcel, Slt, RCNVR - 14 Mar 1944
Chenoweth,
Ian Bryce, Slt, RCNVR - 26 May 1941
Cross,
Edward Alexander, A/Lt, RCNR - 04 Jun 1941
Despres,
Louis Gerald Fabian, Cd (E), RCNR - 23 Mar 1942
Dodds,
James Robert, Surg/Lt, RCNVR - 21 Jul 1941
Giffin,
Averd Earle, Lt, RCNVR - 27 Jul 1943
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Henderson,
Hugh Larratt, Lt, RCNVR - 02 Feb 1943
James,
Ralph Gordon, Lt, RCNVR - 24 Jul 1942
Langs,
Thomas Erland, Slt (E), RCNVR - 10 Mar 1943 Lloyd,
John Frederic, Lt (E), RCNR - 11 Jul 1942 MacDonald,
Charles Croft, Surg/Lt, RCNVR - 06 Jul 1942 McCormack,
Bernard Thomas, Lt, RCNVR - 20 May 1941
Nesbitt,
Wallace Bickford, A/Lt, RCNVR - 08 Mar 1944
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Oppe,
James Stephan, Lt, RCNVR - 06 Feb 1942
Russell,
J.A., LS - Dec 1940
Stewart,
Charles Gordon, Surg/Lt, RCNVR - Jan 1944
Turcot,
Marc Marie Rene, Lt, RCNVR - 21 Apr 1943
Wentz,
Charles Frederick Rupert, Lt, RCNVR - Jan 1942
Wainman-Wood,
Thomas Blake Burrill, Slt, RCNVR - 26 Jul 1943
Whittingham,
Maurice Alfred, Lt, RCNVR - 06 Mar 1944
William,
Owen Stephen, A/Lt, RCNVR - 07 Mar 1944 |
Photos
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HMCS Annapolis I04
From the collection of Eldred Smith
Courtesy of Paul Smith |
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HMCS Annapolis I04 circa Sep/Oct 1940
From the collection of Roy T. Cardy
Courtesy of Dennis Cardy |
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HMCS Annapolis I04
From the collection of Albert Abercrombie
Courtesy of Bill Abercrombie |
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HMCS Annapolis I04
From the collection of Albert Abercrombie
Courtesy of Bill Abercrombie |
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William
Goodale, Steward, V40389, RCNVR - when
William was on HMCS Annapolis, his action station was the depth charge
launchers. He recounted one story of his time on Annapolis to his family
where he remembered how every time the ship entered port the Chief ERA would
get drunk because the engines and boilers were such a nightmare to work on.
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L/Sto Bennett on HMCS Annapolis I04 - Dec 1941
From the collection of George Bennett
Courtesy of Don Bennett
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HMCS Annapolis I04
From the collection of Kenneth Marlatt
Courtesy of Judy Agis
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Ships in HMC Dockyard, Halifax
Outboard destroyer, HMCS Annapolis I04,
outboard minesweeper, HMCS Drummondville J253
From the collection of Albert William
Abercrombie
Courtesy of Bill Abercrombie
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HMCS ANNAPOLIS I04 off the approaches to
Halifax harbour
From the collection of François
Messier, AB, RCNVR
Courtesy of Denis Messier
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(CC23)
HMCS ANNAPOLIS I04 (outboard ship) at St. John's, NFLD (CC24 L-R:
Kennedy, Campbell, Simms, Gill, Dicks, Kneen on HMCS ANNAPOLIS (CC25)
Bringing in the whaler on HMCS ANNAPOLIS (CC26) Depth charge exploding
astern of HMCS ANNAPOLIS during a training exercise (CC27) Ice-covered depth
charges on the quarterdeck of HMCS ANNAPOLIS (webmaster's note: even
in moderate seas her quarterdeck was awash)
(CC28)
HMCS ANNAPOLIS towing a corvette (CC29) L-R: Unknown, Campbell, Simms,
Kells on HMCS ANNAPOLIS (CC30) HMCS ANNAPOLIS - looking forward from just
aft of the torpedo tubes (CC31) Unidentified sailors working on the
depth charges on HMCS ANNAPOLIS (CC32) LTO Claude Campbell (left) with
shipmate on the stern of HMCS ANNAPOLIS
(CC33)
HMCS ANNAPOLIS (senior ship) leading corvettes (CC34) Depth charge
rails on HMCS ANNAPOLIS (CC35) Claude Campbell (front) looking a little
dirty after maintenance duties on HMCS ANNAPOLIS (CC36) Breech
clear. Sailors jacking around on HMCS ANNAPOLIS. Claude Campbell
being held by gun breech (CC37) Boat deck on HMCS ANNAPOLIS
(CC38)
HMCS ANNAPOLIS in dry dock. This photo is shortly after her commission
in the RCN as she still has all four of the funnels (CC39) No 1 gun on
HMCS ANNAPOLIS (CC40) HMCS HAMILTON I24 (CC41) Battleship HMS
REVENGE (CC42) Shipmates ashore - Campbell, Kells, Lawrence
(CC43)
Sailors on the quarterdeck of HMCS ANNAPOLIS (CC44) HMCS HAMILTON
I24 (CC45) "On watch at guns" on HMCS ANNAPOLIS (CC46)
USS WOOLSEY DD-437 (CC47) Unidentified 4-stacker
(CC48)
Troopship "EMPRESS OF RUSSIA" (CC49) USS ERICKSON
(CC50)
Freighter in convoy (CC51) Jack Kells on the after gun mount on HMCS
ANNAPOLIS (CC52) Gun crews at forward gun on HMCS ANNAPOLIS
(CC53)
Sailors on the quarter deck of HMCS ANNAPOLIS. Claude Campbell 1st on
right (CC54) Unidentified sailor on HMCS ANNAPOLIS (CC55)
Sailors on the quarterdeck of HMCS ANNAPOLIS - Claude Campbell 1st on
right (CC56) Torpedo tubes on HMCS ANNAPOLIS (CC57) A corvette
and a Dutch submarine
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CC58 |
(CC58) Sailor sitting on ready-use
ammunition rack for the after gun mount on HMCS ANNAPOLIS
From the collection of PO
Claude Campbell, RCNVR
Courtesy of Hal Campbell
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