HMCS VENCEDOR Z21

 

Fishermen's Reserve Vessel

 

 

HMCS VENCEDOR, 27 Jul 1945

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

 

Built: 1913 

Commissioned: 

Paid off:

Fate: Sold after the war. Final disposition unknown

 

Vencedor was built in Britain in 1913 as the three-masted topsail schooner Exmouth II, tender to the Thames River training ship Exmouth. She was renamed after her sale in 1927 to the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. She served in the Fishermen's Reserve and was used by the RCN as a miscellaneous auxiliary on the west coast, she was sold after the war and was still in service in 1981.

 

 

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

 

 

 

Former Crew Members

 

Cook, Frederick William, Mate, RCNVR - 20 Jun 1944

 

Miller, Gordon George, Skpr, RCNR - 06 Apr 1943

 

Norman, Morley Warner, Lt, RCNVR - 28 Apr 1943

 

Proudfoot, Arthur James, Skpr, RCNR - 11 May 1942

 

Sweeting, William John, Skpr, RCNR - 10 Apr 1942

 

 

HMCS VENCEDOR

RCN Photo

Courtesy of the Comox RCAF Museum

 

 

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