HMCS ARRAS J15  /  Gate Vessel 15

 

Battle Class Trawler

 

 

HMCS ARRAS circa 1940

DND / RCN photo

 

Launched: 15 Sep 1917

Commissioned: 08 Jul 1918

Paid off: 01 Apr 1919

Re-commissioned: 11 Sep 1939

Paid off: 01 Apr 1946

Fate: Broken up 1957

 

Built at Kingston, ARRAS was in commission from Jul 1918 to 1919, when she was transferred to the Fisheries Protection Services and became a fishery protection vessel. As such, she frequently served as hospital ship to the Grand Banks fishing fleet. Taken up again by the RCN, she was in service from 11 Sep 1939 to 01 Apr 1946. Initially stationed at Halifax, from mid-1941 she was employed at Sydney, N.S., as Gate Vessel 15, and was extensively damaged by fire in Nov 1943. She was broken up at Halifax in 1957.

 

 

Photos and Documents

 

 

Commanding Officers

 

Mate Harry John Clarke, RNCVR - 07 Jul 1918 - unk

Lt Antoine Herbert Cassivi, RCNR - 28 Jan 1941 - unk

Lt John Willis, RCNR - 15 May 1941 - unk

Lt John Willis, RCNR - 17 Apr 1943 - unk

Lt William James Arsenault, RCNR - 26 Apr 1945 - 01 Apr 1946

 

 

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

 

 

 

Former Crew Members

 

Burke, Alexander James, A/Skpr, RCNR - 03 Jul 1940

 

Burnham, Gordon Cameron, A/Skpr, RCNR - 17 Feb 1940

 

Campbell, Colin Stewart, A/Lt, RCNVR - 13 Jun 1941

 

Corbite, Same, C.E.R.A. - 1940

Douglas, Ian, Lt, RCNVR - 15 May 1941

 

Evelyn John, A/Lt, RCNR - 21 Apr 1940

 

Flower, Richard, Slt, RCNVR - 20 May 1943

 

Kenney, Reginald Ray, Lt, RCNR - 04 May 1940

Merriam, Sidney Leslie, Ch/Skpr, RCNR - 21 Apr 1941

 

Oxford, Raymond, Skpr, RCNR - 17 May 1941 / Ch/Skpr, RCNR - 18 Apr 1943

 

Taylor, Donald Archibald Ross, Lt, RCNVR - 22 Jun 1945 (GV #15)

 

 

Photos and Documents

 

ARR001 / JL11

ARR002

(ARR001) Sam Corbite, C.E.R.A. on HMCS ARRAS in 1940  //  From the collection of Joseph Ambrose Walter Lees  //  Courtesy of Art Lees

 (ARR002) HMCS ARRAS in Drydock - c1918-19

 

 

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