HMCS OUTARDE J161 - For Posterity's Sake

For Posterity's Sake

A Royal Canadian Navy Historical Project

HMCS OUTARDE J161

HMCS Outarde J161

Laid down: 15 Oct 1940

Launched: 27 Jan 1941

Commissioned: 04 Dec 1941

Paid off: 24 Nov 1945

Fate: Sold in 1945 for commercial use. Final disposition unknown

Named for Outarde Bay, Que., she was commissioned at Vancouver on 04 Dec 1941. Outarde spent her whole career on the west coast, alternately serving with the Prince Rupert and Esquimalt Forces. She was paid off 24 Nov 1945, at Esquimalt, sold in 1946 for conversion to a merchant ship, and re-named Ping Hsin by her Shanghai owners. She vanished from Lloyd's Register after 1950.

Photos and Documents The Ship's Bell

Commanding Officers

Lt Henry McKee Kennedy, RCNR - 04 Dec 1941 - 25 Feb 1942

Lt Aubrey Alvin Randle Dykes, RCNR - 26 Feb 1942 - 09 Mar 1942

Lt Henry McKee Kennedy, RCNR - 10 Mar 1942 - 18 May 1942

Lt Ronald Jackson, RCNVR - 19 May 1942 - 05 Feb 1943

A/LCdr James Alastair Macdonnell, RCNR - 06 Feb 1943 - unk

A/LCdr Harold Heap Rankin, RCNR - 06 Jun 1943 - unk

Lt H.B. Tindale, RCNVR - 24 Feb 1944 - 09 Mar 1944

Lt Alexander Charles Jones, RCNR - 10 Mar 1944 - 23 Aug 1944

Lt Harry Bush Tindale, RCNVR - 24 Aug 1944 - 24 Aug 1945

Lt J.P. Kieran, RCNR - 25 Aug 1945 - 04 Oct 1945

In memory of those who have crossed the bar They shall not be forgotten
A-B
Bernays, Max L.	Bieber, Edgar Edward 1916-1944
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Clark, Ernest Westall 1918-2000
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Jackson, Ronald 1900-1979 4th Commanding Officer	James, Richard E.T.	Jones, Alexander Charles ____-____ Drafted to Outarde on 05 Mar 1944 as Lt, RCNR	Kinch, George F.
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McCoy, Mirrild E. ____-2000	Mills, James E.
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Stanbrook, Wilfred Thomas ____-2000 Served in Outarde 13 Feb 1942 - 31 May 1942	Stevens, Harold 1920-1985	Templeton, Thomas McD. 1919-1944	Trickett, Roy D.

Former Crew Members

Bowes, Albar Robert, A/Lt, RCNVR - 15 Jun 1944

Chambers, Lt

Diebel, John Keith, Lt (E), RCNVR - 28 Apr 1945

Dosie, John Charles, Lt (E), RCNR - 06 Jun 1943

Draeseke, Gordon Ladner, Lt, RCNVR - 16 Mar 1943

Flynn, James Arthur, Slt, RCNVR - 03 Apr 1943

Hardy, John, Slt, RCNVR - 29 Apr 1942

Heater, Allan Randolph, Skpr, RCNR - 27 Jan 1942

Lawson, Donald James, Lt, RCNVR - 10 Apr 1943

Leadlay, LTO

Leighton, Richard John Robert, A/Lt, RCNVR - 20 Jul 1944

Lemon, Wilford Augustus, Lt, RCNVR - 20 Jul 1942

MacDonald, Edmund Luther, Lt, RCNVR - 03 Feb 1944

McCuaig, Walter Donald, Slt, RCNVR - 05 Apr 1943

Morris, Gordie, AB

Norman, Morley Warner, Lt, RCNVR - 12 Jul 1944

Smith, Sto 2c

Travis, VA

Trepanier, Albert, AB

Wood, Sto 1c

Zaharuk, Wesley, Slt, RCNVR - 21 Apr 1943

Photos and Documents

Final tribute, with full naval 'honors, was paid on board HMCS "Cayuga" to Lieut. Alexander C. Jones, RCN (R), (Ret'd), who died recently in Victoria. Lieut. Jones, a former Merchant Service officer, was in charge of the Chart Depot in HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt, at the time of his death. During the war he commanded the minesweeper "Outarde" on the west coast. Above, as the pallbearers stand with bowed heads and the funeral firing party rests on its arms reversed, Chaplain F. H. Godfrey reads the burial service before the body is committed to the deep.

Source: CROWSNEST Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 4, February, 1950