HMCS SUNBEAM Z42

 

Auxiliary Tanker

 

 

HMCS SUNBEAM

Source: The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910-1981 by Ken Macpherson and John Burgess

 

Acquired by RCN: 1940 

Commissioned: 11 Nov 1940

Paid off: 13 Dec 1945

Fate: Broken up in 1968

 

Built in Port Glasgow, NS, she was launched in 1911. Formerly the Department of Transport Hopper Barge No. 4, she was acquired by the RCN in 1940 and converted to a fuel oil carrier. SUNBEAM was commissioned on 11 Nov 1940, and served as a lighter at Halifax and St. John's and occasionally as a transport. Paid off on 13 Dec 1945, and sold into commercial service, she was renamed BIRCHBRANCH in 1949. Her register was closed in 1968, as she had been broken up.

 

 

Photos and Documents

 

 

Commanding Officers

 

Skpr Edward Walker Hannaford, RCNR - 08 May 1941 - 27 June 1943

Skpr/Lt Stanely Francis Ellis, RCNR - 28 Jun 1943 - unk

Lt James Arthur Aldhouse, RCNR - 30 Mar 1944 - unk

Ch/Skpr Ernest Lyman Thompson, RCNR - 01 Jul 1944 - unk

Skpr/Lt Frederick Joseph James Henderson, RCNR - 22 May 1945 - unk

  

 

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

 

 

 

Former Crew Members

 

Beck, David Edward, Ch/Skpr, RCNR - 13 Apr 1942

 

Davie, Joseph, Skpr, RCNR - 19 Jun 1941

 

Digout, Charles Simon, Skpr, RCNR - Jan 1945

Rose, George Thomas Clayton, Ch/Skpr, RCNR - 18 Apr 1945

 

Thompson, Ernest Lyman, Ch/Skpr, RCNR - 28 Jun 1943 / 01 Mar 1945

 

 

Photos and Documents

 

SGD003

(SGD003) Stoker Sydney Drew on HMCS SUNBEAM

From the collection of Sydney Drew, RCNVR

Courtesy of Sydney Drew (grandson)

 

 

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JFS014

JFS015

JFS016

(JFS013-JFS014) Two HMCS SUNBEAM Christmas cards

(JFS015) Unidentified rating on HMCS SUNBEAM

(JFS016) Unidentified sailors by the ship's boat on HMCS SUNBEAM

From the collection of John Staples, LSA, RN

Courtesy of Brian Staples

 

 

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