HMCS BARRIE K138

Flower Class Corvette

HMCS BARRIE K138

DND / RCN Photo

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Laid down: 4 Apr 1940

Launched: 23 Nov 1940

Commissioned: 12 May 1941

Paid off: 26 Jun 1945

Fate: Broken up in 1972

Commissioned at Montreal on 12 May 1941, BARRIE arrived at Halifax on 24 May 1941 and was initially employed as a local escort out of Sydney. On 05 Sep 1941 she left Sydney to join convoy SC.43 for Iceland, but defects necessitated her sailing on to Belfast for two months' refit. She served as a mid-ocean escort until May 1942, when she was assigned to WLEF on her return from Londonderry with ON.91, and she remained with this force until the end of the war. When individual escort groups were formed by WLEF in Jun 1943, she became a member of EG W-1, and continued so except for brief service with EG W-8 in the fall of 1944. In mid-Mar 1944, she commenced a long refit, including fo'c's'le extension, at Liverpool, N.S., working up at Bermuda afterward in August. On 19 May 1945, she left New York with HX.357, her last convoy, and was paid off on 26 Jun 1945 at Sorel. Sold for merchant service in 1947, she became the Argentinean Gasestado but was taken over by the Argentinean Navy in 1957. Converted to a hydrographic survey vessel she was renamed Capitan Canepa. One of Capitan Canepa most important tasks was a survey in 1967 to delineate the contested territorial waters between Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. The survey quite possibly averted war. After more than 30 years service to two navies, she was paid off and broken up in 1972.

Photos and Documents Ship's company photos The Ship's Bell

Commanding Officers

Lt Roy Milton Mosher, RCNR - 12 May 1941 - 09 Jan 1942

Ch/Skpr George Norval Downey, RCNR - 10 Jan 1942 - 28 Mar 1942

A/LCdr Roy Milton Mosher, RCNR - 29 Mar 1942 - 08 Oct 1943

Lt D.R. Watson, RCNR - 09 Oct 1943 - 18 Mar 1944

Lt Harry Ogilvie Magill, RCNVR - 19 Mar 1944 - 15 Jun 1944

Lt William Davis Stokvis, RCNVR - 16 Jun 1944 - 26 Jun 1945

In memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice

Lest We Forget

BULLOCK, Harold L.

L/Sig, RCNVR

died - 20 Apr 1942

COOK, Thomas A.

OS, RCNVR

died - 26 Jun 1941

In memory of those who have crossed the bar

They shall not be forgotten

Spot - Ship's Mascot

Former Crew Members

Boxer, Donald Edward, SLt, RCNVR - Appointed to Barrie 19 Feb 1944 as a SLt, RCNVR

Caldwell, Frank R. L/Sig

Campbell, Gordon Cook, Lt, RCNVR - Jan 1942

Carr, Edward Frederick Lt, RCNVR - 28 Apr 1945

Colcomb, Richard McQuat, Slt, RCNVR - 13 Apr 1943

Cox, "Newfie", AB

David, William Rowland, A/Wt (E), RCNR - 15 Mar 1944

Davis, Marould (Bill), Sto PO, RCNR (of Pictou, NS) - 1945

Downey, George Norval, Ch/Skpr, RCNR - 12 May 1941

English, Howard, Co'xn

Fox, Edward Ferrand, Lt, RCNVR - 15 Feb 1942

Gunn, John W., V73228, RCNVR - 1944

Hudson, Bill

Kirby

Krismous, Bill

Knowles, Ronald Douglas, Slt, RCNVR - Jan 1944

Martin, Maxwell, Buffer

Mathews, George Randle, Lt, RCNVR - 06 Jul 1942

Mavety, George Alexander, Slt, RCNVR - 12 May 1941

McMahon, Harold (Shadow), Sto, RCNR (of Sarnia, ON) - 1945

Pastachak, William, Radar/Sonar

Sheedy, Jack

Photos and Documents

HMCS BARRIE K138

RCN Photos

From the collection of James Wilson

Courtesy of Gail Darby

HMCS BARRIE K138

DND / RCN Photo

HMCS BARRIE’s gunshield art taken in St. John’s NF in 1943

Roger Litwiller Collection, courtesy Ross Milligan, RCNR. (RTL-REM170)

Unknown sailor on HMCS BARRIE K138

Source: Flickr photo collection of Ron Bell