HMCS TIMMINS K223 - For Posterity's Sake

For Posterity's Sake

A Royal Canadian Navy Historical Project

HMCS TIMMINS K223

Then Honduran-Flagged Merchant Vessel Guayaquil (1948)

HMCS Timmins K223

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Laid down: 14 Jun 1940

Launched: 26 Jun 1941

Commissioned: 10 Feb 1942

Paid off: 15 Jul 1945

Fate: Foundered on 03 Aug 1960

Built at Esquimalt, she was commissioned there on 10 Feb 1942. Timmins served with Esquimalt Force until transferred to the east coast. Upon arrival at Halifax on 13 Oct 1942 she was assigned to WLEF. With its division into escort groups in Jun 1943, she became a member of EG W-6, transferring to W-2 in Apr 1944. She commenced a two-month refit at Liverpool, N.S., late in Jun 1943, followed by workups at Pictou. A second refit, again at Liverpool, was carried out between late Jun and mid-Oct 1944. It included the extension of her fo'c's'le and three weeks' working-up in Bermuda followed. Timmins was paid off on 15 Jul 1945, at Sorel, and sold later that year for commercial use. She entered service in 1948 as the Honduran-flag Guayaquil and, ironically, foundered at Guayaquil, Ecuador, on 03 Aug 1960.

Commanding Officers

Lt James Albert Brown, RCNR - 10 Feb 1942 - 18 Aug 1942

LCdr A.T. Morrell, RCNR - 19 Aug 1942 - 30 Aug 1942

Lt J.M. Gillison, RCNR - 31 Aug 1942 - 11 Jan 1943

Lt Neville Spencer Charles Dickinson, RCNVR - 12 Jan 1943 - 19 Mar 1943

LCdr J.H.S. MacDonald, RCNR - 20 Mar 1943 - 18 Apr 1943

A/LCdr Herries Stirling Maxwell, RCNVR - 19 Apr 1943 - 29 Jun 1944

Lt R.G. James, RCNVR - 02 Sep 1944 - 15 Dec 1944

Lt John Kincaid, RCNR - 16 Dec 1944 - 15 Jul 1945

In memory of those who have crossed the bar They shall not be forgotten
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Barwis, Dewey Ira Charles 1924-2008
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Chanter, Charles Edward ____-2014	Clark, James 1922-2013	Devey, Ronald Joseph ____-2006
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Hulley, Kenneth ____-1948
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Ryder, Lawrence ____-____
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Smith, Jack Newton 1919-2003	Sobkow, Walter J. 1921-2012