HMCS COMOX J64

 

Fundy Class Minesweeper

 


 

HMCS COMOX J64

Courtesy of the CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum  Image # VRS1992.60.48

 

Laid down: 05 Feb 1938

Launched: 09 Aug 1938

Commissioned: 23 Nov 1938

Paid off: 27 Jul 1945

Sold: 1946

Fate: Final disposition unknown

 

Commissioned on 23 Nov 1938, COMOX was stationed at Esquimalt at the outbreak of the war, and carried out local patrol duties until Mar 1940, when, with Nootka, she was ordered to the east coast. Arriving at Halifax in Apr 1940, she spent the entire war on local minesweeping duties with Halifax Local Defence Force. On 15 Jan 1945, with Fundy, she rescued survivors from the U.S. liberty ship Martin van Buren, torpedoed off Halifax. She was paid off 27 Jul 1945. Sold for commercial use in 1946 she was converted to a tug, the Sung Ming.

 


 

Photos and Documents          Ship's company photos

 


 

Commanding Officers

 

LCdr Henry W. S. Soulsby, RCNR - 23 Nov 1938 - 26 May 1940

A/LCdr Dickson C. Wallace, RCNR - 27 May 1940 - 27 Jul 1940

A/Cdr Henry W. S. Soulsby, RCN - 28 Jul 1940 - 09 Oct 1940

Lt R.R. Kenny, RCNR - 10 Oct 1940 - 22 Jun 1941

A/Lt Thomas Gilmour, RCNR - 23 Jun 1941 - 02 Aug 1941

Mate J.R. Biggs, RCNR - 29 Sep 1941 - 25 Mar 1942

Lt Frank Goddard Hutchings, RCNR - 26 Mar 1942 - 03 Aug 1942

Lt J.P.A. Duggan, RCNR - 04 Aug 1942 - 13 Apr 1944

Lt Joseph Eudore N. Vezina, RCNR - 14 Apr 1944 - 27 Jul 1945

 


 

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

 

 


 

Former Crew Members

 

Beaubien, Joseph Albert Paul Andre, A/Skpr, RCNR - 28 Apr 1940

 

Bewley, Albert Leslie, SLt, RCNVR - Jan 1945

 

Burke, Alexander James, Skpr/Lt, RCNVR - 11 Apr 1945

 

Gain, Howard Francis, SLt, RCNVR - 08 Jun 1943

Hutton, Noel Harry, Skpr, RCNR - 22 May 1940

 

Lawless, Howard Blais, Ch/Skpr, RCNR - 02 May 1941

 

McPherson, Douglas Cluny, SLt, RCNVR - 24 Mar 1942

 

Robinson, Ben Norman, SLt, RCNVR - 30 Jun 1944

Rowbotham, Henry Slater, SLt, RCNVR - 12 Mar 1945

 

Vezina, Joseph Eudore Napoleon, Skpr, RCNR - 27 Mar 1942

 


 

Photos and Documents

 


 

HMCS COMOX J64 - undated

 

DND / RCN photo

 

Officers of HMCS COMOX J64

 

Chief Skipper J.N. Vezina, RCNR;  Lt H.J. Fry, RCNVR; and CO, Lt J.E. Duggan, RCNR

 

From the collection of J. Vincent Wesley, CPO, RCNVR

 

Courtesy of Marilynn Taylor

 

Article on minesweeping operations off Halifax harbour - 21 Sep 1943

 

Mentioned in the article:

 

Chief Skipper J.N. Vezina, RCNR;  Lt H.J. Fry, RCNVR; and CO, Lt J.E. Duggan, RCNR - HMCS COMOX

 

Lt Robert Stark, RCNVR;  ERA John Cooper, RCNVR;  AB Russel Cossman, RCNVR;  LS James Clayton, RCNVR;  PO John Sainiuk, RCNVR;  CERA Walter Layzell, RCNR, SLt Jack Cavanagh, RCNVR - HMCS SUDEROY VI

 

From the collection of François Messier, AB, RCNVR

 

Courtesy of Denis Messier

 


 

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