HMCS BRANDON 710 - For Posterity's Sake

HMCS BRANDON 710

Kingston Class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel

HMCS BRANDON 710 departing Portland, Oregon - Jun 2017

Courtesy of / © Ralph Lehman, SMSGT, USAF, ret'd 2017

Battle honours and awards: Atlantic 1941-45, Gulf of St. Lawrence 1945

Laid down: 06 Dec 1997

Launched: 10 Jul 1998

Commissioned: 05 Jun 1999

Paid off: 30 Sep 2025 at HMC Dockyard Esquimalt

Built by Halifax Shipyards Ltd., Halifax, N.S., BRANDON was launched on 10 Jul 1988. On 24 Mar 1999, BRANDON left Halifax and sailed to Esquimalt, arriving there on 03 May 1999. On 05 Jun 1999, she was commissioned at CFB Esquimalt and was stationed on the West Coast.

Betty Jean Coleman was the sponsor for HMCS BRANDON

"The ships [of the Kingston Class] were incredibly useful and perfect in so many ways, on missions of sovereignty and patrol, in operations domestically and internationally especially in demining the Baltic, and incredibly all over the far north, sailing extensively on counter drug missions and on capacity and confidence and building in the Caribbean, eastern Pacific, and Gulf of Guinea, teaching maritime security operations to no less than 20 nations, all the while generating proud and capable sailors, and giving the Naval Reserves a sense of purpose never before realized in Canada." by Rear-Admiral John Newton, MMM, MSM, CD, RCN ret'd - 31 May 2025

Photos and Documents

The Kingston Class - The Naval Reserve Association of Canada

Commanding Officers

LCdr Robert J. Ramage - 11 Jan 1999 - 09 Dec 2000

LCdr D. Turetski - 09 Dec 2000 - 14 Feb 2001

LCdr D. Young - 14 Feb 2001 - 14 Apr 2001

LCdr S. King - 14 Apr 2001 - 18 Jun 2001

LCdr James Robert Thorpe - 12 Aug 2004 - 09 Sep 2006.

In memory of those who have crossed the bar