HMCS SUMMERSIDE 711

 

Kingston Class Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel

 

 

 

SPEM SUCCESSUS ALIT

 

SUCCESS NOURISHES HOPE

HMCS SUMMERSIDE 711 during transit to the Caribbean for Operation Carribe, 30 Jan 2016

DND photo / Formation Imaging Services

 

Battle honours and awards:  Atlantic  1941-44,   Gulf of St. Lawrence  1942, 1944,   Normandy  1944,   English Channel  1944-45

 

 

Laid down: 28 Mar 1998

Launched: 25 Sep 1998

Commissioned: 18 Jul 1999

Paid off: 

 

The last of her class, she was built at Halifax Shipyards Ltd., Halifax, N.S. Launched on 26 Sep 1998, she was commissioned at Summerside, P.E.I. on 18 Jul 1999. She was assigned to the east coast. On 07 Mar 2016, wile deployed to OP CARRIBE, HMCS SUMMERSIDE with members of a United States Coast Guard (USCG) Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) embarked, intercepted a drug smuggling vessel in the waters of Nicaragua and seized 16 bales of cocaine weighing approx 364 kilograms.

 

On 06 May 2024, HMCS SUMMERSIDE departed Halifax for a 9-week deployment on Op Caribbe, Canada's contribution to a U.S.-led enhanced counter-narcotics operations, in the Caribbean region and will join HMCS MARGARET BROOKE, already deployed.

 

"The ships [of the Kingston Class] were incredibly useful and perfect in so many ways, on missions of sovereignty and patrol, in operations domestically and internationally especially in demining the Baltic, and incredibly all over the far north, sailing extensively on counter drug missions and on capacity and confidence and building in the Caribbean, eastern Pacific, and Gulf of Guinea, teaching maritime security operations to no less than 20 nations, all the while generating proud and capable sailors, and giving the Naval Reserves a sense of purpose never before realized in Canada."  by Rear-Admiral John Newton, MMM, MSM, CD, RCN ret'd - 31 May 2025

 

 

Photos and Documents          Ship's company photos

 

 

Commanding Officers

 

LCdr Timothy A. Kerr - 18 Jul 1999 - 01 Dec 2001

LCdr M. Hopper - 01 Dec 2001 - UNK

 

 

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

 

Ryan, Michael A.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Former Crew Members

 

Gagnon, Patrick Raymond

 

 

Photos and Documents

 

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(SMR001) On 07  Mar 2016 HMCS Summerside 711 with members of a United States Coast Guard (USCG) Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) embarked, intercept a drug smuggling vessel in the waters of Nicaragua and seized 16 bales of cocaine weighing approx 364 kilograms.  //  Photo source: Naval Today

(SMR002) HMCS Summerside 711 participating in the sail past at Halifax at the start of Exercise Cutlass Fury - 12 Sep 2016  //  Courtesy of Clarence Hemeon

(SMR003) HMCS KINGSTON 700 and HMCS SUMMERSIDE 711 alongside in Portsmouth (UK), May 2019 at the end of the jetty where there carrier HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH is tied up.  KINGSTON and SUMMERSIDE are enroute to exercises in the Baltic and are outfitted with their minesweeping gear  //  Courtesy of Guy Jeffery, Cdr (ret'd)

(SMR004) The beauty of sunsets at sea is capture here with HMCS SUMMERSIDE 711 anchored off the coast of Iceland - 18 Jul 2022  //  Photographer: Cdr Jeffrey Anderson

 

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(SMR005-SMR006) HMCS SUMMERSIDE'S embarked team of Royal Canadian Navy clearance divers destroyed historical ordnance left over from WW1 and WW2 off the coast of France yesterday. Together with our SNMCMG1 partners, we're helping clean up European waters of dangerous leftover mines and ordnance and are having a blast doing it! 21 Aug 2021  //  Photographers: MS Cox, S1 Congdon

 

 

(SMR007) HMCS GLACE BAY 701 and HMCS SUMMERSIDE 711 decorated for the 2023 Christmas season

Source: RCN Facebook page

Photographer:  Mona Ghiz

 

 

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