For Posterity's Sake
A Royal
Canadian Navy Historical Project
HMCS
LACHUTE K440
HMCS Lachute K440
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Laid down: 24
Nov
1943
Launched: 09
Jun 1944
Commissioned: 26
Oct 1944
Paid off: 10
Jul 1945
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Fate:
1947, sold to the Dominican Republic Navy and commissioned as Colon.
Paid off in 1978, she was driven ashore in a hurricane 31 Aug 1979
and wrecked.
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Built at Quebec City, She was
commissioned there on 26 Oct 1944,
Lachute arrived at Halifax in mid-Nov 1944 and left for Bermuda on
02 Dec 1944 for three weeks' workups. Assigned on her return to EG
C-5 at St. John's, she left there on 05 Jan 1945, to escort her
first convoy, SC.164. She served the remainder of her career as a
mid-ocean escort, leaving Londonderry on 26 May 1945 to join ON.305, the
last westbound convoy of the war. On 10 Jul 1945 she was paid off and
placed in reserve at Sorel. In 1947 she was sold to the Dominican
Republic and joined its navy as Colon. Deleted from the active list
in 1978, she was driven ashore in a hurricane on 31 Aug 1979
alongside her sister Juan Alejandro Acosta (former HMCS Louisburg
K401).
Photos and Documents
Commanding Officers |
Lt Raymond
Gardiner Hatrick,
RCNVR - 26 Oct 1944 - 10 Jul 1945 |
Former Crew Members
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Hatrick,
Raymond Gardiner, Lt, RCNVR
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Parratt,
Emmanuel, War (E), RCNR - 12 Feb 1945 |
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Photos
and Documents
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HMCS Lachute K440
Photo taken from HMCS Runnymede K678
Photo from the WWII collection of Kirk Wipper
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A letter from a sailor named Hugh who served in
HMCS Lachute to his Aunt Vera in Aberdeen - date 30 May 1945
Courtesy of James Davidson
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HMCS Lachute at St John's, Newfoundland, May
1945
From the collection of George Burton
Courtesy of Len Burton
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