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For Posterity's Sake 
A Royal
Canadian Navy Historical Project
HMCS OUTARDE
J161
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HMCS Outarde J161
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Laid down: 15
Oct
1940
Launched: 27
Jan 1941
Commissioned: 04
Dec 1941
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Paid off: 24
Nov 1945
Fate:
Sold in 1945 for commercial use. Final disposition unknown
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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
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Commanding Officers |
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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 |
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In memory of those who have crossed the bar
They shall not be
forgotten |
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A-B |
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Bernays, Max Lepold
1910-1974 |
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I-J |
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Jackson,
Ronald
1900-1979
4th Commanding Officer |
Jones,
Alexander Charles
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Drafted to Outarde on 05
Mar 1944 as Lt, RCNR |
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M-N |
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McCoy,
Mirrild E.
____-2000 |
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Stanbrook,
Wilfred Thomas
____-2000
Served in Outarde 13 Feb 1942 -
31 May 1942 |
Stevens,
Harold
1920-1985
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Former Crew Members
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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
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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
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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
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Photos
and Documents
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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 |
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AB Albert Trepanier on the bridge of HMCS
Outarde J161
From the collection of Harold Stevens
Courtesy of Rob Stevens |
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AB Gordie Morris on HMCS OUtarde J161
From the collection of Harold Stevens
Courtesy of Rob Stevens |
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Lt Kennedy, Commanding Officer, on the bridge
of HMCS Outarde J161
From the collection of Harold Stevens
Courtesy of Rob Stevens
Note: Lt Kennedy was CO of HMCS Outarde 04 Dec 1941 - 25 Feb 1942
and 10 Mar 1942 - 18 May 1942 |
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Red Knowles on HMCS Outarde J161
From the collection of Harold Stevens
Courtesy of Rob Stevens |
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Quarterdeck of HMCS Outarde J161 - sailors in
photo unknown
From the collection of Harold Stevens
Courtesy of Rob Stevens |
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Sailors on HMCS Outarde J161
top: Knowles, Leatham, Sinclair / bottom: Laing
From the collection of Harold Stevens
Courtesy of Rob Stevens |
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Stoker 2c Smith, Victualling Assistant
Travis, Stoker 1c Wood, LTO Leadlay on HMCS Outarde J161
From the collection of Harold Stevens
Courtesy of Rob Stevens |
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L-R: Hal Stevens, Lt Chambers and Crawford on
HMCS Outarde J161
From the collection of Harold Stevens
Courtesy of Rob Stevens |
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