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HMCS MALASPINA
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Auxiliary
Patrol Ship
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HMCS MALASPINA
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Laid down: 1913
Launched: 1913
Acquired by RCN: 1917
Commissioned: 15
Dec 1917
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Paid off: 31
Mar 1920
Commissioned:
06 Sep 1939
Paid off: 31
Mar 1945
Fate:
Sold for scrap in 1946
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HMCS
MALASPINA was a
Canadian government fisheries patrol vessel pressed into service
with the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in 1917 and again in 1939 and
which therefore saw service during the First World War and Second
World War. During WW 2 she served as an examination vessel and
training vessel. MALASPINA was serving as a tender to HMCS Royal
Roads when she was paid off in 1946.
RCN Memories:
MALASPINA Memories
Photos
and Documents
Commanding Officers
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Lt Holmes Newcombe, RNCVR - 01 Dec 1917 - 31 Mar 1920
LCdr W. Redford,
RCNR - 06 Sep 1939 - unk
Lt G.S. Hall,
RCNR - 14 Nov 1940 - unk
Ch/Skpr Walter Raymond Chaster,
RCNR - 17 Apr 1941 - unk |
Ch/Skpr J.M.
Richardson, RCNR - 21 Nov 1941 - unk
Ch/Skpr Alan Whittaker Ogden,
RCNR - 28 Jan 1942 - unk
LCdr John Scudamore Cunningham,
RCNVR - 08 Mar 1943 - unk |
In memory of those who have crossed the bar 
They shall not be
forgotten
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Barlow,
Bernard C.
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Bell-Irving,
Richard M.
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Bing,
John B.
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Bushby,
Robert J.
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Chapellow, Louis
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Duff,
Stewart J.
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Ford, George
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Garvey,
William
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Hancock, Ralph
G.
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Lapp,
John R.
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Leitch,
Dugald
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Mann, Dennis
H.
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McClellan,
John F.
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Monkley,
Harry F.
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Newcombe, Holmes
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Tee, Harold D.
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Thomas,
Charles
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Wolfenden,
John E.
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Former Crew Members
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Brinkman,
Joseph Cabot, Ch/Skpr, RCNR - 08 Mar 1944
Francois,
John Eugene, A/Skpr, RCNR - 05 Feb 1940
Harvey,
George Robert, Skpr, RCNR
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Lloyd,
Douglas, Skpr, RCNR - 02 Mar 1942
Love,
Gage Hayward, Lt, RCNVR - 07 Apr 1943
Pearo,
Lester Peter, Skpr, RCNR - 22 Jun 1941
Rhodes,
Harry, Ch/Skpr, RCNR - 29 Jul 1942 |
Scott,
David, Lt (E), RCNR - 01 Jul 1941 / 01 Jul 1943
Silvester,
Jim Clark, OS/AB, QR3, RCNVR
Smith,
James R., Skpr/Lt, RCNR - 01 May 1944
Young,
Henry Esson, RCNR - 23 Apr 1941 |
Photos and
Documents
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Sketch of HMCS MALASPINA by L.P. Cox
Courtesy of Mario Talbot
It is not known the time frame this sketch was made nor
is there any information available on the artist, L.P. Cox
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HMCS MALASPINA
Walter E. Frost Collection
City of Vancouver Virtual
Archives
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HMCS MALASPINA
Walter E. Frost Collection
City of Vancouver Virtual
Archives
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Cooks Flunky on HMCS MALASPINA, 1941
From the collection of Jim Silvester
Courtesy of Jim Silvester
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bow of HMCS MALASPINA, 1941
From the collection of Jim Silvester
Courtesy of Jim Silvester
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Jim Silvester and Bob on HMCS MALASPINA, 1941
From the collection of Jim Silvester
Courtesy of Jim Silvester
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HMCS MALASPINA, 1941
From the collection of Jim Silvester
Courtesy of Jim Silvester
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MALASPINA digging in, 1941
From the collection of Jim Silvester
Courtesy of Jim Silvester
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Coaling party on HMCS MALASPINA, 1941
Leatham, Gilmour, Bertrand, Jim Silvester, and Gil
"The Mal was an old coal burner and when our coal
supply got low we would head up to get loaded. Our coaling party looked a
lot like Al Jolson when we were finished."
From the collection of Jim Silvester
Courtesy of Jim Silvester
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Two Jims on the quarterdeck of HMCS MALASPINA, 1941
From the collection of Jim Silvester
Courtesy of Jim Silvester
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