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HMCS REINDEER
Z08
Armed
Yacht
HMCS REINDEER Z08
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Launched: 1926
Commissioned: 27
May 1940
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Paid
off: 20 Jul 1945
Fate:
Sold in 1945, Final disposition unknown
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Built by Newport News SB Co.,
Newport News, USA. REINDEER accompanied HUSKY and LYNX to Quebec City for conversion and arming in the summer of
1940. She was commissioned at Halifax on 27 May 1941 for service
with Sydney Force, returning to Halifax on 26 Dec 1941 for the
winter. She joined Gaspé Force in Jul 1941, but by year's
end was back again with Halifax Local Defence Force. In May
1942, she moved to Sydney Force, and in Nov 1942, to Saint John,
N.B. Force. On 24 Dec 1942, REINDEER was assigned as
training ship to HMCS CORNWALLIS, then located at Halifax,
transferring with the establishment to Digby in 1943. She was
employed there on A/S training with RN submarines until the end of
the war, except for a stint at Saint John, N.B., during the first
half of 1944. She was paid off to reserve at Sydney on 20 Jul 1945, and sold later that year.
Photos
and Documents Ship's
company photos The
Ship's Bell
Commanding Officers
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LCdr Edgar George
Skinner, RCNR - 27 May 1940 - 17 Jan 1941
LCdr
Frederick Avery
Price, RCNVR - 18 Jan 1941 - 16 May 1941
Lt Lysson Gordon Cumming, RCNVR - 17 May
1941 - 08 Jul 1941
LCdr
Frederick Avery
Price, RCNVR - 09 Jul 1941 - 31 Jul 1941
Lt Lysson Gordon
Cumming, RCNVR - 01 Aug 1941 - 20 Apr 1942
Lt William
Evans, RCNVR - 21 Apr 1942 - 30 Apr 1942
Lt F.J.G.
Johnson, RCNVR - 01 May 1942 - 23 Nov 1942 |
Lt D.M. Coolican, RCNVR - 24 Nov
1942 - 08 Feb 1943
Lt Ralph
Gordon
James, RCNVR - 09 Feb 1943 - 19 May 1944
Lt John Hamilton Ewart, RCNVR - 20 May
1944 - 07 Oct 1944
Lt Wesley Coburn
Hawkins, RCNVR - 08 Oct 1944 - 01 Mar 1945
Lt
Reginald Campion
Hayden, RCNVR - 02 Mar 1945 - 29 Apr 1945
Lt Wesley Coburn
Hawkins, RCNVR - 30 Apr 1945 - 20 Jul 1945 |
In memory of those who have crossed the bar 
They shall not be
forgotten
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Bernays, Max
L.
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Blue,
Eric M.
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Carroll,
Gerard R.
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Cormier,
Joseph G.L.
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Cormier,
Joseph L.N.
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Dedul,
Joseph P.
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Drew, Ronald F.
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Ewart,
John H. |
Farley,
Gerald R. |
Freeland,
Fred
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Hughes, John
J.
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Hickey,
Lester A.
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Lawrence,
John S.
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Lorriman,
Clarence A. |
Mackie,
Gordon A.
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Mahoney,
John E.
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Milne,
Gordon R.
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Morrison,
Daniel A.
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Pardee,
Charles H.
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Radford,
Russel
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Roste,
Lyle E.
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Scougal,
Gordon J.
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Seager, R.
Benjamin
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Smith,
Richard A.
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Stewart,
Beverley G.
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Turner, John
A.
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Former Crew Members
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Benoit,
Hubert, Lt, RCNVR - 01 Feb 1944
Burgess,
Gord
Fetterly,
Allan Edgar, SLt, RCNVR - 20 Feb 1943
Jemmett,
Douglas Edward Folkes, RCNVR - 26 Jan 1942
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Johnson,
Frederick James Gordon, Lt, RCNVR - 01 May 9142
Lorriman,
Clarence Ashford, Lt, RCNVR - 06 Feb 1945
McMullen,
Joseph, SLt, RCNVR - 05 Apr 1944
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Spragge,
Peter Waldie, SLt, RCNVR - 17 May 1941
Sturrock,
Bernard James Archibald, RCNVR - 03 Mar 1943
Twining,
Russell Cornell, Lt, RCNVR - 03 Feb 1941
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Photos
and Documents
(RD08)
Sunday service on the fo'c's'le of HMCS REINDEER Z08
(RD09)
Officers on HMCS REINDEER Z08 - Ronald Drew (centre)
(RD10)
Some of the crew of HMCS REINDEER Z08
(RD11)
Ronald Drew (right) ashore while serving in HMCS REINDEER.
Unidentified shipmate on left.
(RD12)
Ronald Drew on HMCS REINDEER
From the collection of Ronald Drew
Courtesy of Gordon Drew
(JT03)
HMCS REINDEER
(JT04)
HMCS REINDEER jacket patch
(JT05)
Jack Turner, about to throw a heaving line, on HMCS REINDEER (JT06)
Jack Turner ashore somewhere in the USA (JT07)
Jack Turner, upper centre of photo, with beard
From the
collection of John Aaaron Turner, RCNVR
Courtesy of
Rich Turner
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