HMCS LEASIDE K492 - For Posterity's Sake

For Posterity's Sake

A Royal Canadian Navy Historical Project

HMCS LEASIDE K492

HMCS Leaside K492

Laid down: 23 Sep 1943

Launched: 10 Mar 1944

Transferred to the RCN: 21 Aug 1944

Commissioned: 21 Aug 1944

Paid off: 16 Nov 1945

Fate: Scuttled in Jan 1979

Laid down and launched as HMS Walmer Castle K460, she was transferred to the RCN and commissioned on 21 Aug 1944, at Middlesbrough as HMCS Leaside K492. Following workups at Tobermory in Sep 1944 Leaside arrived at Londonderry early in Oct 1944 to join EG C-8, then forming. She sailed on 22 Oct 1944 to meet ON.261, her first convoy, and served the rest of the war as an ocean escort. On 11 May 1945, HMCS Leaside K492, HMCS Edmundston K106 and HMCS Poundmaker K675 departed Londonderry for the last time as escort for convoy ONS.50. Leaside left St. John's in Jun 1945 for Esquimalt, where she was paid off for disposal on 16 Nov 1945. Sold in 1946 to the Union Steamship Co., Vancouver, she was converted to a coastal passenger vessel and renamed Coquitlam. In 1950 she was renamed Glacier Queen. In 1970 she stripped in anticipation of becoming a floating restaurant but the plans for the restaurant fell thought and she was left as a hulk. The hulk sank in Cook Inlet, Alaska, on 08 Nov 1978, but was raised and towed to sea and scuttled in Jan 1979.

Photos and Documents Ship's company photos

Convoys escorted during WW II

Convoy Desig.	Convoy Departs from	Arrives at	Join as escort	Depart Convoy
ON.261	Southend (20 Oct 1944)	New York City (05 Nov 1944)	22 Oct 1944	31 Oct 1944
HX.318	New York City (04 Nov 1944)	Liverpool (19 Dec 1944)	10 Nov 1944	19 Nov 1944
ON.269	Liverpool (29 Nov 1944)	New York City (15 Dec 1944)	29 Nov 1944	09 Dec 1944
SC.163	Halifax (17 Dec 1944)	Liverpool (31 Dec 1944)	20 Dec 1944	30 Dec 1944
ONS.40	Liverpool (12 Jan 1945)	Halifax (30 Jan 1945)	13 Jan 1945	25 Jan 1945
HX.335	New York City (28 Jan 1945)	Liverpool (10 Feb 1945)	02 Feb 1945	10 Feb 1945
ON.286	Liverpool (21 Feb 1945)	New York City (09 Mar 1945)	21 Feb 1945	04 Mar 1945
HX.343	New York City (09 Mar 1945)	Liverpool (24 Mar 1945)	14 Mar 1945	24 Mar 1945
ONS.46	Liverpool (02 Apr 1945)	Halifax (20 Apr 1945)	02 Apr 1945	16 Apr 1945
HX.351	New York City (18 Apr 1945)	Liverpool (03 May 1945)	23 Apr 1945	03 May 1945
ONS.50	Liverpool (11 May 1945)	Halifax (29 May 1945)	12 May 1945	23 May 1945

Commanding Officers

Lt Gordon Guthrie Keith Holder, RCNVR - 21 Aug 1944 - 15 Jun 1945

Lt Harold Brynolfson, RCNVR - 16 Jun 1945 - 30 Aug 1945

LCdr Charles Patrick Balfry, RCNR - 01 Sep 1945 - 16 Nov 1945

In memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice

Lest We Forget

PATERSON, John A.

SBA, RCNVR

died - 08 May 1945

In memory of those who have crossed the bar

They shall not be forgotten

Kirkpatrick, William M.

Former Crew Members

Brennen, Pete

Brine, Bill, Sto PO - 1945 (of Springhill, NS)

Brockhurst, Norman William, Lt, RCNVR - 26 Jun 1944 (Stand by)

Crout, Leslie Eden, Lt, RCNVR - 15 Apr 1945

Dupre, Yvon A., Lt, RCNVR - 26 Jun 1944 (Stand by)

Galarneau, Andre, AB - 1945 (of Montreal, QC)

Lemon, Kenneth Armstrong, Surg/Lt, RCNVR - 30 May 1945

Mitchell, Arthur, A/CPO - 1945 (of Calgary, AB)

Mulley, John Wallace, Lt, RCNVR - 01 Jun 1945

Rainboth, SBA - circa 1945/46

Reid, William Charles, Slt, RCNVR - 10 Mar 1945

Stechyson - 1945

Strackhan, Hugh, C.E.R.A. - 1945 (of Cumberland, BC)

Tanner, John James, A/Wt (E), RCN - 29 May 1945

Young, Paul, Ch/Sto - 1945 (of Halifax)

Photos and Documents