HMCS LLEWELLYN J278 / 141

 

Llewellyn Class Minesweeper

 

 

Post Second World War badge

HMCS LLEWELLYN J278

 

Launched: 14 Nov 1941

Commissioned: 24 Aug 1942

Paid off: 14 Jun 1946

Re-commissioned: 25 Jul 1949

Paid off: 31 Oct 1951

Fate: Foundered 28 Oct 1960

 

Built at Chantier Maritime de St. Laurent, Ile d'Orleans, Que., she was commissioned at Quebec City on 24 Aug 1942.  She was assigned to Halifax Defence Force and spent her wartime career on precautionary sweeps of the Halifax approaches. After the war she served as guard ship for the reserve fleet at Halifax until paid off on 14 Jun 1946. She was re-commissioned in 1949 for use as a tender at Saint John, and finally paid off on 31 Oct 1951. Sold in 1957 for commercial use, she foundered on 28 Oct 1960 while fishing off Cape Breton.

 

 

Photos and Documents

 

 

Commanding Officers

 

Ch/Skpr Archibald Currie, RCNR - 23 Apr 1942 / 24 Aug 1942 - 14 Sep 1942

Lt John Alliston MacKinnon, RCNR - 15 Sep 1942 - 24 Sep 1943

Skpr/Lt W.H. Crocker, RCNR - 25 Sep 1943 - 11 Oct 1943

Lt John Alliston MacKinon, RCNR - 12 Oct 1943 - 26 Feb 1945

Lt Frederick W. Anderson, RCNVR - 27 Feb 1945 - 29 Mar 1945

Lt John Alliston MacKinnon, RCNR - 30 Mar 1945 - 11 Apr 1945

Lt Frederick W. Anderson, RCNVR - 12 Apr 1945 - 19 Aug 1945

Lt Frederick W. Anderson, RCNVR - 08 Sep 1945 - 14 Jun 1946

Cdr William Edward S. Briggs, RCNVR - 25 Jul 1949 - 21 Aug 1949

Lt J.C. Marston, RCNR - 22 Aug 1949 - 31 Oct 1951

 

 

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

 

 

 

Former Crew Members

 

Brennan, Wilbert Michael, SLt, RCNVR - 26 Mar 1945

Campbell, Aubrey Borden, SLt, RCNVR - 1945

Pacquet, Lawrence Alfred, SLt, RCNVR - 17 Apr 1945

Trainor, William Holl, Lt, RCNVR - 26 Jul 1943

 

 

Photos and Documents

 

HMCS LLEWELLYN J278 and HMCS LLOYD GEORGE J279 under construction at the Île d’Orléans shipyard, Quebec

 

Source: virtual.museum.ca

HMCS LLEWELLYN J278 as see from the deck of HMCS LLOYD GEORGE J279

 

Source: Lt Gilbert A. Milne / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and Archives Canada / PA-151549

The stubby little "LLEWELLYN" heads for her berth in HMC Dockyard, Halifax, after a 2,000-mile reserve training cruise around the coast of Newfoundland

 

Source: CROWSNEST Magazine Vol. 1, No. 12, October 1949

HMCS LLEWELLYN J278 and HMCS SUDEROY V J05 seen from the sweep deck of HMCS LLOYD GEORGE J279

 

From the collection of François Messier, AB, RCNVR

 

Courtesy of Denis Messier

HMCS LLEWELLYN J278 - undated

 

DND / RCN photo

 

 

Post Second World War Photos

 

 

HMCS LLEWELLYN 141

 

Source: Nation's Navy: In Quest of Canadian Naval Identity

HMCS LLEWELLYN 141

 

DND / RCN photo

 

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