HMCS RESOLUTE 154

 

Bay Class Minesweeper

 


 

HMCS RESOLUTE 154

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Laid down: 29 Aug 1951

Launched: 20 Jun 1953

Commissioned: 15 Sep 1954

Paid off: 14 Feb 1964

Fate: Unknown

 

Built by Kingston Shipyards Ltd., she was commissioned on 16 Sep 1954.

 

From 03 Oct to 18 Oct 1960, a combined force of Canadian and American warships including HMCS CAPE SCOTT, minesweepers HMCS RESOLUTE, HMCS FUNDY, HMCS THUNDER, HMCS CHIGNECTO, HMCS QUINTE, HMCS CHALEUR, the loop-layer CNAV BLUETHROAT, the diving tender YMT-6 with RCN divers, eight American minesweepers, USS AGILE, USS AGGRESSIVE, USS BOLD, USS BULWART, USS KINGBIRD, USS BLUEBIRD, USS LIMPKIN and USS HUMMINGBIRD, mine counter-measures support ship USS ORLEANS PARISH, the netlayer USS YAZOO and an American Explosive Ordnance and Disposal Team, participated in Exercise Sweep Clear V off Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

 

RESOLUTE was paid off on 14 Feb 1964 and declared surplus the following year.

 


 

Exercise Sweep Clear V - 05 Oct 1960 (video)  //  Source: Library and Archives of Canada  //   Courtesy of Brian Fitzpatrick

 


 

Commanding Officers

 

LCdr Jack Leroy Panabaker, RCN - 16 Sep 1954 - 14 Sep 1955

LCdr N.D. Langham, RCN - 15 Sep 1955 - 05 Aug 1957

Cdr Kai Hugh Boggild, RCN - 06 Aug 1957 - 13 May 1958

Cdr Alexander Craig Campbell, RCN - 14 May 1958 - unk

Cdr H.J. Hunter, RCN - unk - 22 Mar 1961

Lt Gerald William Garrard, RCN - 23 Mar 1961 - 02 Jan 1963

LCdr Macgregor Fullerton McIntosh, RCN - 03 Jan 1963 - 14 Feb 1964

 


 

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

 

 


 

Former Crew Members

 

Day, Lee, AW

 

Hopkins, Ted

 

McCartney, D., LS.RP

 


 

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