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HMCS NOOTKA
J35 / HMCS NANOOSE J35
Fundy
Class Minesweeper
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HMCS NOOTKA / NANOOSE J35
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Laid
down: 01 Feb 1938
Launched: 26
Sep 1938
Commissioned: 06
Dec 1938
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Renamed:
01 Apr 1943
Paid off: 29
Jul 1945
Fate: Unknown
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Commissioned on 06 Dec 1938, at Esquimalt,
NOOTKA was based thee when the war began. She performed local patrol
duty until Mar 1940, when, with COMOX, she was transferred to
Halifax Local Defence Force with which she remained throughout the
war. On 01 Apr 1943, she was renamed NANOOSE so that her original
name could be allotted to a Tribal class destroyer. She was paid off
at Halifax on 29 Jul 1945, and, like two of her sisters, sold in
1946 to become a tug. Her Chinese owners renamed her Sung Ling.
Photos and Documents
The Ship's Bell
Commanding Officers
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LCdr
Harry Kingsley,
RCN - 06 Dec 1938 - 14 May 1939
LCdr
Kenneth Frederick Adams,
RCN - 15 May 1939 - 21 Aug 1939
LCdr
Maurice Adrian Wood,
RCN - 22 Aug 1939 - 13 Sep 1939
Lt
A.T. Morrell,
RCNR - 14 Sep 1939 - 27 Sep 1940
LCdr
W.J. Fricker,
RCN - 28 Sep 1940 - 28 Jan 1941
Lt James Philip Fraser,
RCNR - 29 Jan 1941 - 20 Jul 1941 |
Lt
Alexander McAllister McLarnon,
RCNR - 21 Jul 1941 - 02 Aug 1941
Lt
James Philip Fraser,
RCNR - 03 Aug 1941 - 14 Sep 1941
Mate W.R. Nunn,
RCNR - 15 Sep 1941 - 15 Mar 1942
Ch/Skpr Gerald Francis Burgess,
RCNR - 16 Mar 1942 - 13 Sep 1943
Skpr/Lt
Gordon Cameron Barnham,
RCNR - 14 Sep 1943 - 29 Jul 1945 |
In memory of those who have crossed the bar 
They shall not be
forgotten
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Allan, John
M.
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Boon,
Alvin A.
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Boudreau,
Leonard J.
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Burgess,
Charles T.
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Carson,
Morley W.
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Chipman,
Lawrence F.
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Clark,
Ernest W.
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Dickinson,
Harry L.
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Digou,
Raymond F.
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Farnsworth,
James G.
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Finlay, Paul
W.
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Fraser,
James P.
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Geddes,
Frederick E.
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Guttridge,
Neville H.
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Hampson,
Lawrence G.
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Hiron,
Bernard E.
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Hollands,
Frederick C.
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Hutton,
Jack
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Jamieson,
Robert D.
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Kennah,
Willette R.
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Kingsley, Harry
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McDonald, James
A.
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McKay,
Graham A.
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Pooles,
Donald H.
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Pratt,
William R.
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Purcell,
Herbert A.
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Raymond, P.
J. Russell
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Rowe, Robert
E.
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Savoy,
Alfred T.
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Shelley,
Ralph T.
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Turcot, Marc
M. R.
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Ward, Victor
A.
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Waring,
Richard
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Wood, Ernest
Y.
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Wood, Maurice A.
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Former Crew Members
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Aird,
Peter John, SLt, RCNVR - 07 May 1945
Brighton,
Gordon Jack, SLt, RCNVR - 25 May 1942
Browne,
William B., Seaman - Dec 1940
Burgess,
Gerald Francis, Skpr, RCNR - 16 Mar 1942
Burnham,
Joseph David Skpr, RCNR - 28 Mar 1942
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Deschampes,
Joseph Gabriel Alderic, Lt, RCNVR - Jan 1944
Farley,
Norman, Stoker, RCNVR
Flanagan,
Arthur Leo, Lt(E), RCNVR - 26 Feb 1941
Fleet,
H.W. - Dec 1940
Hampson,
Lawrence Garth, SLt, RCNVR - 20 Feb 1943
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Purcell,
Charles Edmund, SLt, RCNVR - 07 May 1945
Stevens,
Herbert Charles, SLt, RCNVR - 13 Jun 1942
Thompson,
Ernest Lyman, A/Skpr, RCNR - 05 May 1940
Young,
Breen Philip, Mate, RCNR - 30 Apr 1940 |
Photos and
Documents
HMCS NANOOSE
J35
From the
collection of Alvin Boon, RCNVR
Courtesy of
Linda boon
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Jacket
patch for HMCS NOOTKA J35
From
the collection of Harold Stevens
Courtesy
of Rob Stevens
This
patch was originally designed for the minesweeper HMCS NOOTKA J35
whose name was changed to HMCS NANOOSE to allow to the name NOOTKA to be
used for the destroyer. This patch was used as the ship's badge until
the ship received its official badge in 1947. (Source: Designs of
Distinction - Unofficial Insignia of the RCN by David W. Freeman)
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