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For Posterity's Sake 
A Royal
Canadian Navy Historical Project
HMCS RAYON
D'OR
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HMCS Rayon d'Or
Source: The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces
1910-1981 by Ken Macpherson and John Burgess
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Built: 1912
Acquired
by RCN: 11 Sep 1939
Commissioned: 1939
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Paid off: 1945
Fate:
Unknown
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Requisitioned on 11 Sep 1939, this former fishing trawler became an auxiliary mine
sweeper based at Halifax. Her duties also included loop-laying
and maintenance. Early in 1943, following a winter refit,
Rayon d'Or was assigned to Sydney Force and remained in that service
until Feb 1944, when she rejoined the Halifax Local Defence
Forc3. Paid off in 1945, she resumed her commercial career
until 1954.
Photos
and Documents
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Commanding Officers |
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A/Lt Thomas Gilmour, RCNR - 12 Apr
1941 - unk
Mate Henry Ernest Lade, RCNR - 19
Apr 1941 - unk |
Ch/Skpr Ralph Andrew Doucette, RCNR - 07 Apr 1942 -
unk
Skpr Watson Godfrey LeMesurier, RCNR - 06 May 1943 - unk
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In memory of those who have crossed the bar
They shall not be
forgotten
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S-T
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Trotter,
Hector Sutherland
____-1992
Drafted to Rayon D'Or 21May 1943
as a SLt, RCNVR
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Former Crew Members
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Cloutier,
Jean Paul, A/Skpr, RCNR - 22 May 1940
Doucette,
Ralph Andrew, Skpr/Lt - 25 May 1943
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Kennedy,
James Walter, A/Skpr, RCNR - 23 May 1940
Lade,
Henry Ernest, Mate, RCNR - 24 Apr 1940 |
Slater,
Anthony Herbert Murray, Midshipman, RCNR - 06 Jun 1942
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Photos
and Documents
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(1-3) Jack Curtis on Rayon
D'Or (4) Little Bras D'Or, Cape Breton, NS
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(1-18) Convoy off Sydney, NS
(6-7)
Convoy passes by fishing boat (8) Minesweeper (11) Corvette
to right of convoy (14) Corvette (17) Corvette
(18-20) SS Burgeo approaching Sydney, NS - 1943
Webmaster's
note: Based on the sea state and the sky, these photos were taken
at various times and are not all of the same convoy
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(21-27) Torpedoed Dutch freighter -
Sydney, NS - 1943
From the collection of Hector
Trotter
Courtesy of Collin Trotter
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