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HMCS
CAPE BRETON 100
Escort
Maintenance Ship
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READY AND CONFIDENT |
HMCS CAPE BRETON 19 Aug 1961 at
dock in BC
Photographer: Walter E. Frost
Source: City of Vancouver
Archives
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Battle honours and awards: Arctic
1944, Normandy 1944, Atlantic
1944-45
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Laid down:
05 Jul 1944
Launched:
07 Oct 1944
Paid off: 1952
Transferred to the RCN:
1952
Commissioned: 31
Jan 1953
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Paid off: 25 Aug 1958
Re-commissioned: 16
Nov 1959
Paid off:: 10
Feb 1964
Fate: Sunk as an artificial reef 20
Oct 2001 |
A modified Fort type cargo ship, HMS
FLAMBOROUGH HEAD was built by Durrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd. Launched at Vancouver in
1944, she served in the RN
until paid off in 1952. FLAMBOROUGH HEAD was acquired from the RN in
1952, and renamed CAPE BRETON upon commissioning on 31 Jan 1953. She served at Halifax until
25 Aug 1958, as a repair ship
and training establishment for technical apprentices. Converted to
escort maintenance ship at Esquimalt, she was commissioned there on
16 Nov 1959, for service on the west coast. On 10 Feb
1964, CAPE BRETON was paid off into reserve, but since 1972 she has
functioned as a towed mobile support facility and accommodation vessel
at Esquimalt, designated Fleet Maintenance Group (Pacific). Finally
removed from service, she was sold and sunk as an artificial reef on
20 Oct 2001 near Nanaimo, BC.
Photos and Documents
The Ship's Bell
Ship's Company Photos
Commanding Officers
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Cdr Edward Newton Clarke,
RCN - 31 Jan 1953 - 21 Mar 1954
Cdr Daniel Hugh Fairney,
RCN - 22 Mar 1954 - 08 Mar 1956
Capt James Stuart Ross,
RCN - 09 Mar 1956 - 02 Jul 1956
Cdr (E) Frank Harley,
RCN - 03 Jul 1956 - 31 Jul 1957
LCdr K.W. Salmon,
RCN - 01 Aug 1957 - 26 Aug 1957 |
Cdr J.C. Chauvin,
RCN - 27 Aug 1957 - 11 Jun 1958
Cdr Harry Romeyn Beck, RCN - 12 Jun
1958 - 01 Aug 1958
LCdr R.P. LeMay,
RCN - 02 Aug 1958 - 25 Aug 1958
Cdr M.F. Oliver,
RCN - 16 Nov 1959 - 24 Jul 1962
Cdr Ian Archibald McPhee,
RCN - 25 Jul 1962 - 10 Feb 1964 |
In memory of those who have crossed the bar 
They shall not be
forgotten
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Beanlands,
Gordon A.
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Bell, Wesley
G.
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Bergstrom,
Lloyd G.
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Blosser,
Frank E.
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Bonner,
Albert L.
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Brideau,
David G.
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Brown,
William DeW.
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Brownsey,
Lionel J.S.
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Beanlands,
Gordon A. |
Beck,
Harry R.
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Christie,
Alan E.
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Churcher,
Walter R.
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Clarke,
Edward N.
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Clarke,
Robert
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Copley,
Lloyd G.
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Cox,
Peter S.
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Curell,
Randy
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Cuthbert,
Lawrence J.
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DeCosta, Wilfred
H.
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Dibben, Basil J.
C. D.
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Dowdall,
James F.
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Dunham, Roy
O.
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Ebner, Ernest
F.
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Edwards,
Charles W.
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Fairney,
Daniel H.
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Fane,
Peter E.
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Gillespie,
Douglas R.
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Halderson,
James
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Hodgkin,
William P.
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Hoskins,
William B.
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Hughes,
Darrell M.
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Ingleson,
Terry R.
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Inouye,
Yeiji
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Irwin, Ernest H.
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Johnson,
Kenneth E.
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Jupp,
Robert H.
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Kellerman, Wilfred
H. J.
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Kerley,
Alfred H.
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Kobayashi,
John A.
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Kovits,
William C.
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Lees, Arthur
L.
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Logie,
Robert D.
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Lysne,
Jack M.
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MacCullough,
Harold A.
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Martin,
Francis J.
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Mason, Eric
B.
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McCallum,
Roy
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McCaw, Hubert J.
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Mott, Ralph S. W.
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Olmstead, Garry I.
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Oxborough,
Donald C.
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Parsons,
Harvey
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Peressini,
Luigi A.
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Phillips,
Edward C.
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Redfern,
Michael W.
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Rodger, A.
Edward
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Ross, Sterling M.
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Sailor,
Frank
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Salaga,
Steven A.
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Salmond,
John A.
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Schauer,
Ralph
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Scougal,
Gordon J.
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Sigurdson,
Thomas A.
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Smith, S.
Kingston
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Smith,
Thomas G.
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Southin,
Howard E.
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Stenson,
Allan E.
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Stone,
George A.
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Sturgess,
Ian A.
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Taylor,
Douglas F.
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Verschuere,
Julian G.
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Walton,
Bruce
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Webster,
Ronald D.
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Westover,
Darroll E.
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Woolverton,
Cecil K.
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Wright,
David L.
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Wright,
Kenneth L.
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Former Crew Members
Photos
and Documents
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CBN001
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CBN002
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CBN003
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CBN004
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(CBN001) HMCS CAPE BRETON 100 - mid-1950s
// Courtesy of Hugh Muir
(CBN002) HMCS CAPE BRETON 100 - undated
(CBN003) Newspaper article on HMCS CAPE BRETON's
basketball victory - The Halifax Mail-Star 22 Nov 1956
(CBN004)
HMCS CAPE BRETON Naval Engineering Apprentice program - Entry
4 - 1956 // Front: Woodcock, Stenson,
Zoschke, Pippet, CPO
Grant, McRitchie, Elwgren, Sanom, Barnes // Rear: Hansen, Christie, Howe, Thomson,
Catchpole, Cooper, Mitchell, Armstrong // Click
here to see Entry 4 course members at their 50th Reunion
The End
Former HMCS CAPE BRETON 100 being sunk as an
artificial reef on 20 Oct 2001
Source: CoastalBC.com
Article on the sinking of the CAPE
BRETON as an artificial reef.
Source: Facebook post by Earl Broome
Click on the above article to view a
larger image
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