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For Posterity's Sake 
A Royal
Canadian Navy Historical Project
HMCS
HALIFAX K237
Flower
Class Corvette
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Laid down: 26
Apr 1941
Launched: 04
Oct 1941
Commissioned: 26
Nov 1941
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Paid off: 12
Jul 1945
Fate:
Sold in 1946 for conversion to a salvage vessel. Final disposition
unknown.
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Built by Collingwood Shipyards Lt.,
Collingwood, Ont., she was commissioned on 26 Nov 1941, at Montreal. HALIFAX
was the first RCN corvette to be completed with a long fo'c's'le. Assigned
to WLEF on her arrival at Halifax on 18 Dec 1941, she was transferred in Jul
1942, to Halifax Force (Aruba Tanker Convoys). On 14 Aug 1942 she arrived at
Aruba with HA.3, her third tanker convoy, and was assigned to escort TAW.15,
a Trinidad-Aruba-Key West convoy which developed into the only major convoy
battle of the war in those waters. Arriving in New York on 14 Sep
1942, she was placed under U.S. control for New York-Guantanamo convoys
until Mar 1943, when she joined WLEF. Between 02 May and 15 Oct 1943, she
underwent an extensive refit at Liverpool, N.S., followed by workups at
Pictou. On New Year's Day, 1944, she arrived at St. John's to join EG C-1,
leaving Londonderry on 11 Aug 1944 for two weeks' refit at Lunenburg. This
refit was followed by three weeks' further repairs at Halifax and, late in
Dec 1944, workups in Bermuda. In Jan 1945, she briefly joined Halifax Force,
transferring in Feb 1945 to EG C-9 for the rest of the war. Paid off on 12
Jul at Sorel, she was sold for conversion to a salvage vessel.
Photos and Documents
Ship's company photos
Commanding Officers
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LCdr C. Copelin, OBE,
RCN - 26 Nov 1941 - 06 Feb 1943
Lt Maurice Faulkman Oliver,
RCNR - 07 Feb 1943 - 21 Jun 1944 |
A/LCdr Ross Malcolm Hanbury,
RCNVR - 22 Jun 1944 - 03 Sep 1944
Lt Leslie Esmond Horne,
RCNVR - 04 Sep 1944 - 12 Jul 1945 |
In memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice
Lest We Forget
LEVY,
St Clair
AB, RCNR died - 20 Apr
1942
In memory of those who have crossed the bar
They shall not be
forgotten
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Allan,
John A.R.
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Brown,
Raymond B.
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Burnett,
Edward C.
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Charron,
Walter E.
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Daley, James
G.
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Davies, Ross
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Fenn,
Gordon
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Fraser,
Donald G.
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Fynn, John
J.
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Gorges,
William M.
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Hadden, George
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Hanbury,
Ross M. |
Horne,
Leslie E,
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Irvine,
Clarence E.
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Leier,
Frank A.
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Patterson,
Percy W.
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Savoy,
Murray A.
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Scharf,
Clayton
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Whaling,
Francis G.
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Former Crew Members
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Bancroft,
Hugh George, SLt, RCNVR - Jan 1945
Charron,
Walter Edmund, Lt, RCNVR - 24 Feb 1945
Ebbels,
William Dennis, Lt, RCNVR - Jan 1944
Grand,
William Martin, Lt, RCNVR - 25 Jan 1944
Hackney,
John Wright, Surg/Lt, RCNVR - 01 Jul 1942
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Heap,
Frederick Keith, SLt, RCNVR - Jan 1942
Holland,
Hary Brehaut, Lt, RCNVR - 03 Apr 1943
Ivine,
Clarence Edward, Surg/Lt, RCNVR - 16 Apr 1944
MacLachlan,
George Alan, Lt, RCNVR - 25 Jan 1944
McKinty,
Dennis Wylie, Lt, RCNVR - 28 Jul 1944 |
McLennan,
James Harold, SLt, RCNVR - 28 Jun 1943
Piper,
Ernest Frederick, Lt, RCNVR - 29 Apr 1942
Smith,
Cecil James Whitnee, Lt, RCNVR - 29 Jun 1943
Thomas,
Lawrence
Trewhitt,
Stephen Cornell, SLt, RCNVR - 22 Mar 1942 |
Photos and Documents
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Gunshield art on HMCS HALIFAX K237
Courtesy of the Naval Museum of Halifax
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HMCS Halifax K237
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HMCS HALIFAX K237 sold to Capt. Archibald S. Publicover
who plans to convert her to a banana boat
From the collection of J.
Vincent Wesley, CPO, RCNVR
Courtesy of Marilynn Taylor
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(CA57-CA59)
HMCS HALIFAX K237 photographed from HMCS FREDERICTON K245
From the
collection of Charles Atkins, RCNVR
Courtesy of
Lorne Atkins
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