HMCS CAPE SCOTT 101

Escort Maintenance Ship

Built by Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd., Vancouver, a modified Fort type cargo ship, HMS BEACHY HEAD was launched at Vancouver in 1944. After the war, she was turned over to the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1947 as repair ship VULKAAN. In 1949 she was returned to the RN and resumed her original name until 1952, when she was transferred to the RCN. She lay alongside Halifax for some years, providing supplementary workshop and classroom facilities until CAPE BRETON was transferred to the west coast in 1958. After refit at Saint John, CAPE SCOTT was at last commissioned on 28 Jan 1959, to serve at Halifax.  In February 1965, CAPE SCOTT transited the Panama Canal from Peru and Easter Island enroute to Halifax. Paid off into reserve on 01 Jul 1970, she was re-designated Fleet Maintenance Group (Atlantic) in 1972, but was sold when the group moved ashore in 1975 and left under tow in 1978 to be broken up in Texas.

Photos and Documents          Ship's company photos          Commissioning Booklet

Organization and Preparation of HMCS CAPE SCOTT for the METEI       HMCS CAPE SCOTT'S Expedition to Easter Island

****    HMCS CAPE SCOTT's missing flags    ****

RCN Memories:  The Boston Bruins play games on HMCS CAPE SCOTT          Black Angus isn't a cow

Commanding Officers

     In memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice    

     Lest We Forget     

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

Former Crew Members

Photos and Documents

(CST001) HMCS CAPE SCOTT 101 - undated

(CST002) HMCS CAPE SCOTT 101  //  DND- RCN Photo

(CST003) AB Jacques Boucher (of Sherbrooke) and AB Charles Paradis (of Quebec City) from HMCS CAPE SCOTT 101 chat with a Bermudian official while on shore leave on Bermuda during Ex Maple Spring 1963  //  The Sherbrooke Daily Record, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Wed, 10 Apr 1963  //  Research by George Newbury

(CST004) ET's mess won the cake for the cleanest after CO.s rounds on a Fri, 1960, HMCS CAPE SCOTT  //  James Nicolson, back row, 3rd from left  //  Courtesy of James Nicolson

(CST005) Left to right: HMCS CAPE SCOTT 101, HMCS GRILSE 71, and HMS ACHERON.  Foreground: HMCS ST CROIX, HMCS ANTIGONISH (right). Recife, Brazil, Feb 1966  //  Courtesy of Robert Berbeck

(CST006) HMCS CAPE SCOTT 101  //  Courtesy of Jim Brannen

(CST007) Public relations pamphlet for HMCS CAPE SCOTT's Medical Expedition to Easter Island (METEI)  //  This document was originally posted at alsindependences.com by George Goodwin in 2007  but the site is no longer active  //  Courtesy of Robert Manzer, Cdr, RCN

(CST008) Plaque commemorating HMCS CAPE SCOTT's deployment to Easter Island 1964-1965  //  From the collection of Robert Manzer, Lt*, RCN  //  Courtesy of Robert Manzer, Cdr, RCN

(CST009) Surg-Lt Berube and Dr. Armand Boudreault, the METEI Virologist in CAPE SCOTT during the METEI deployment  //  Credit: Jacalyn Duffin  //  Courtesy of Robert Manzer, Cdr, RCN

(CST010) Crossing the Line (Equator) certificate given to Alastair Mullen during the CAPE SCOTT's Easter Island Medical Expedition 1964-65  //  Courtesy of Jason Price

(CST011) A pig roast that was prepared by the locals of the Easter Islands for the Expedition members and crew of HMCS CAPE SCOTT during the Easter Island Expedition  //  Courtesy of Arthur Horn, Mar Eng, RCN / C.A.F. (Navy)

(CST012) PO Thomas Galley, Photographer, with one of the locals on Easter Island  // The Windsor Star, Sat., 01 May 1965 page 66  //  Courtesy of Bob Manzer

(CST013) HMCS CAPE SCOTT was sailing home from the medical expedition to Easter Island and the Galapagos on 15 February 1965, the day Canada adopted it new flag. The ship held a ceremony to haul down the white ensign and hoist the new flag. There were two new flags hand stitched onboard based on verbal descriptions received by radio (the ship had been gone since 16 November 1964). The captain then was Commander Tony Law.

Dr Jacalyn Duffin, Professor Emerita and Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine, Queen's University, and author of "Stanley’s Dream: The Canadian Medical Expedition to Easter Island," is trying to trace the CAPE SCOTT'S flags, without success. She knows one was mailed to Prime Minister Pearson, but checks of the War Museum and the Museum of History were fruitless (the letter to PM Pearson but no flag is in the National Archives).

Can anyone please provide a lead to assist with the search?

If you can provide any information on the whereabouts of these two flags, please send an email to RUNSI (Royal United Services Institute of Nova Scotia)

(DP01) LCdr Duff Pennie (left) supervising the tot issue on HMCS CAPE SCOTT

(DP02) Photo taken on 15 Feb 1965 when HMCS CAPE SCOTT flew the new Canadian flag for the first time. On the left is Dr. Stanley Skornya, Director METEI; Dr Helen Reid, Medical Examination (Paediatrics); and LCdr(E) Duff Pennie, Engineering Officer  //  Courtesy of Robert Manzer, Cdr, RCN

(CST014) CAPE SCOTT, the shore office for HMCS HURON while she was under construction - 1972  //  From the collection of Heinz Gohlish, Lt, RCN