HMCS ARNPRIOR K494 - For Posterity's Sake

For Posterity's Sake

A Royal Canadian Navy Historical Project

HMCS ARNPRIOR K494

Uruguayan Navy ROU MONTEVIDEO PF1

HMCS Arnprior K494

Source: IWM Ministry of Defence Foxhill Collection of Ship Photographs FL 1020

Laid down: 21 Jun 1943

Launched: 08 Feb 1944

Transferred to the RCN: 08 Jun 1944

Commissioned: 08 Jun 1944

Paid off: 14 Mar 1946

Fate: Sold to Uruguayan navy in 1946. Paid off in 1975. Final disposition unknown.

Laid down as HMS Rising Castle K398, she was built by Harland & Wolff Ltd., Belfast, Ireland. After completion, she was transferred and commissioned into the RCN on 08 Jun 1944 as HMCS Arnprior K494 (renamed on the day she was commissioned). After working up at Tobermory she joined EG C-1 at Londonderry in August, leaving on 19 Aug 1944 to join her first convoy, ONM.249. Arnprior was continuously employed as an ocean escort for the balance of the war. At the beginning of Jun 1945, she left Greenock for St. John's, where she underwent a two-month refit, and from September was based at Halifax. She was paid off there on 14 Mar 1946, and sold later that year to the Uruguayan Navy, which renamed her Montevideo and operated her as a training ship until 1975.

Ship's company photos Photos and Documents

Convoys escorted during WW II
Convoy Desig.	Convoy Departs from	Arrives at	Join as escort	Depart Convoy
ON.249	Liverpool (18 Aug 1944)	New York City (02 Sep 1944)	19 Aug 1944	27 Aug 1944
HX.306	New York City (31 Aug 1944)	Liverpool (17 Sep 1944)	06 Sep 1944	17 Sep 1944
ONS.33	Liverpool (29 Sep 1944)	Halifax (14 Oct 1944)	30 Sep 1944	10 Oct 1944
ON.265	Southend (08 Nov 1944)	New York City (23 Nov 1944)	10 Nov 1944	19 Nov 1944
HX.322	New York City (24 Nov 1944)	Liverpool (08 Dec 1944)	29 Nov 1944	07 Dec 1944
ON.273	Southend (18 Dec 1944)	New York City (04 Jan 1945)	19 Dec 1944	30 Dec 1944
HX.330	New York City (03 Jan 1945)	Liverpool (17 Jan 1945)	07 Jan 1945	17 Jan 1945
ONS.41	Liverpool (29 Jan 1945)	Halifax (20 Feb 1945)	30 Jan 1945	15 Feb 1945
HX.338	New York City (18 Feb 1945)	Liverpool (03 Mar 1945)	23 Feb 1945	03 Mar 1945
ONS.44	Liverpool (12 Mar 1945)	Halifax (31 Mar 1945)	12 Mar 1945	27 Mar 1945
ONS.48	Liverpool (21 Apr 1945)	Halifax (04 May 1945)	21 Apr 1945	30 Apr 1945
HX.355	New York City (09 May 1945)	Liverpool (25 May 1945)	11 May 1945	25 May 1945

Commanding Officers
A/LCdr Stuart Douglas Thom, RCNVR - 08 Jun 1944 - 27 Aug 1945	A/LCdr Thomas Bottrell Edwards, RCNR - 28 Aug 1945 - 14 Mar 1946

In memory of those who have crossed the bar They shall not be forgotten
A-B
Batchelor, Earl Leonard 1924-2007	Brooks, Howard ____-c1990's	Browne, Randall William 1917-1975 Served in Arnprior 15 Feb 1946 - 08 Mar 1946
C-D
Campbell, Earl ____-____	Clark, Arnold Milton 1924-2011	DeLancey, Arthur Langley 1915-2000
G-H
Gordon, Hugh Warwick 1919-2010 Drafted to Arnprior K494 on 08 Jun 1944 as Lt, RCNVR
K-L
Kirk, Michael 1922-2009	Laughton, Charles 1919-2004 Drafted to Arnprior on 08 Jun 1944 as Lt, RCNVR
M-N
McNally, William Holland 1913-1995	Mitchell, John Litchfield 1924-2011	Nalezyty, Leonard Walter 1921-2008
Q-R
Reid, Samuel Ian 1925-2013
S-T
Turner, Thomas Charles
W-X
Whitlum, Frederick, A.C. 1926-2017