
HMCS QUEBEC C31
Crown
Colony Class Light Cruiser
NOS CANONS
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HMCS QUEBEC C31 circa 1952 - taken during high speed trials on the west
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Laid down: 20
Jul 1939
Launched: 07
Aug 1941
Commissioned: 03
Jan 1943
Transferred to RCN: 21
Oct 1944
Commissioned: 21
Oct 1944 as HMCS Uganda
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Paid off:
01 Jan 1947
Re-commissioned: 14
Jan1952 as HMCS QUEBEC
Paid off: 13
Jun 1956
Fate: Scrapped at Osaka, Japan, in 1961
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As HMS Uganda, the name-ship of
her class, she was completed 03 Jan 1943, at Vickers-Armstrong
Ltd., Newcastle-on-Tyne. After working up with the Home Fleet she
joined Plymouth Command in Apr 1943 for operations in the Bay of Biscay
and the English Channel, and in Jul 1943 joined the 15th Cruiser
Squadron, Mediterranean Fleet, as part of Force "K." She
was badly damaged by a German glider bomb on 13 Sep 1943,
while supporting the Allied landing at Salerno, Italy, and arrived
at Charleston, S.C., in November for a year of repair work.
Presented to the RCN, the ship was commissioned HMCS
UGANDA on 21
Oct 1944, at Charleston, and in Nov 1944 returned to the
U.K. for further modifications. She left in Jan 1945, for the
Pacific via the Suez Canal, to join the 4th Cruiser Squadron,
British Pacific Fleet. In Apr 1945 she joined Task Force 57 in the
Okinawa area, and was thereafter principally employed in screening
the Fleet's aircraft carriers operating against Japanese airfields
in the Ryukyu Islands. On 14 Jun 1945 she participated in the
bombardment of Truk, and in Jul 1945 supported carriers operating
against Tokyo. She left the Fleet late in Jul 1945 and arrived at
Esquimalt on 10 Aug 1945 for refit. Uganda spent the rest of her
career as a training ship; she was renamed QUEBEC on 14 Jan 1952.
After transiting from Esquimalt to
Halifax in 1952, QUEBEC was soon sailed for Newfoundland where she took
Lieutenant Governor Sir Leonard Outerbridge CBE - DSO, on an official tour
of isolated Nfld out ports. This was a RCN service guaranteed under the
terms of union with Canada. Upon returning to Halifax, the QUEBEC was
selected as the flagship of Rear Admiral Bidwell, and tasked to lead
Canada's Coronation Squadron to the Queen's Review of all Royal Naval and U
S Naval Vessels at Spit head. In 1955 HMCS QUEBEC was tied up at the RCSCC
Training Camp [Protector] at Point Edward Naval Station, Cape Breton N S.
She was finally paid off on 13 Jun 1956. On 06 Feb 1961 she arrived at
Osaka, Japan to be broken up.
RCN Memories:
Last
Man On Board
Photos
and Documents Ship's
company photos The
Ship's Bell Former
Crew Members
Commanding Officers
Capt Patrick David Budge, DSC,
RCN - 14 Jan 1952 - 10 Sep 1953
Capt Edward William Finch-Noyes,
RCN - 11 Sep 1953 - 31 Jul 1955 |
Capt D.W. Piers, DSC,
RCN - 01 Aug 1955 - 08 May 1956
Cdr Edgar Sydney MacDermid,
RCN - 09 May 1956 - 13 Jun 1956 |
In memory of those who have crossed the bar
They shall not be
forgotten
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Ball,
Donald J.
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AuCoin,
John S. |

Beaver, Kenneth J.
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Bergstrom,
Lloyd G.
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Bielby, John
W.
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Billard,
Robert A.
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Bodden,
Arthur G.
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Boggild,
Kai H.
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Boulay, Jean-Louis
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Bradford,
Wayne
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Brownrigg,
John A.L.
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Budge,
Patrick D.
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Bull,
William F.
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Burnett,
Gerald C.
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Bush,
Charles L.
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Canning,
Kevin M.
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Cardiff,
William
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Cardy,
John H.
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Chambers,
Ronald J.
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Clark,
Donald S.
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Comeau,
George G.
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Conway,
Francis P.
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Crowley,
Michael J.P.
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Curry,
Donald G. |

Curry,
Victor S.
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MacGillivray,
Darroch N. |

Maciver,
Donald A.
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MacLeod,
Allison H.
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MacLeod,
Donald M.
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MacLeod,
Ivor E.
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Madden,
James
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Martel,
Louis |

Mason, Eric
B. |

Mason,
John W.R.
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Mason, Robert D. |

McArdle,
Christopher C.
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Miles,
Warren
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Mitchell, Earl C. |

Munro,
Gordon W.
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Myers,
Frank S.
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Former Crew Members
Boulay,
Jean Louis, OS, RCN
Crawford, Hugh Leonard, Cdr (L), RCN
Day,
Lee, AW, RCN
Gervais, ?? circa 1954-1955
Legault, Sylvio,
ABLM, RCN - 03 Sep 1954 - 03 Aug 1955
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Moquin, Bert - circa 1954-1955
Russelo, Carl
Semple,
Robert, Stoker - 1955
Sharkey, ?? - circa 1954-1955
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Smith, Thomas J (Snuffy) - 1952-1953
Udashkin, Sid, ABAAS, RCNR - 31 Jul 1953 - 20
Nov 1956
Watson, Jack E., SN, RCN |
Photos and
Documents

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HMCS QUEBEC |

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HMCS QUEBEC
RCN photo - negative #S2538 |

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HMCS QUEBEC A & B turrets 6-inch guns firing
Courtesy of / from the photo collection of Eric
Stapleton |

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HMCS QUEBEC arrives at Quebec city
From the collection of Lt VS
Curry, CD, RCN (Ret'd)
Courtesy of Gerry Curry |

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HMCS QUEBEC
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HMCS
QUEBEC, HMCS MAGNIFICENT, HMAS SYDNEY and,
HMCS SIOUX, returning from Coronation, off Halifax, June 1953
Courtesy of Gerald Sullivan |

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HMCS QUEBEC taking station
alongside HMCS MAGNIFICENT for a jackstay transfer, 1953
Courtesy of Gerald Sullivan |
After
escorting the Royal Yacht Britannia to mid-ocean, the crew of HMCS QUEBEC
salute the Queen with 3 cheers before the QUEBEC returns to
Halifax - c1953-54
From
the collection of Francis Walsh
Courtesy
of Mike O'Keefe
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Month-Long Cruise Due For QUEBEC
HMCS QUEBEC to make month-long cruise with port
visits to Madeira Island, Lisbon, Copenhagen and Brest
The Halifax Chronicle-Herald, Tuesday, 27 Apr
1954
Research by / Courtesy of George Newbury
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Newspaper Article from the Picton
Gazette, 26 Jan 1955 on a PE County sailor, Robert Semple and HMCS QUEBEC's circumnavigation of Africa
Source: Prince Edward County Archives Microfilm
collection
Researched and complied by: © John Lyons 2014
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Newspaper Article from the Picton
Gazette, 14 Jan 1955 on HMCS QUEBEC's circumnavigation of Africa
Source: Prince Edward County Archives Microfilm
collection
Researched and complied by: © John Lyons 2014
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Crossing the Line Certificate for B. Meikle
during HMCS QUEBEC's South American Cruise 1954
Courtesy of Jason Rowbottom |

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Crossing the Line certificate for B. Meikle
during HMCS QUEBEC's African Cruise 1955
Courtesy of Jason Rowbottom |

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Sailors from HMCS QUEBEC ashore - location
unknown
Source: obituary for John Karlich |

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HMCS QUEBEC
From the collection of Larry Restall
Courtesy of Clayton Restall
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(GD01)
Gregory Deck posing with local child while ashore from HMCS QUEBEC.
Location unknown
(GD02)
Gregory Deck (left) ashore with shipmates from HMCS QUEBEC. Location unknown
From the collection of Gregory
Deck, RCN
Courtesy of Tina Deck Gardiner
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