
HMCS
DUNDURN Z41
CNAV / CFAV DUNDURN AO / AOC / AOTL-502
CNAV DUNDURN 502
Source: Flickr photo collection of Don
Gorham
As
the ship appeared on 13 Oct 2007 in North Vancouver. DUNDURN appears to be berthed at the jetty, however, she is actually being
used as a floating breakwater.
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Built: 1943
Commissioned: 25
Nov 1943
as HMCS DUNDURN Z41
Paid
off: 09 Apr 1946
Re-commissioned:
1946
Transferred
to Esquimalt: 1946
Paid off: 02
Jan 1947
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Re-designated:
CNAV
Re-designated:
CFAV
Removed
from service: 16 Sep 1994
Fate:
Declared surplus on 17 Nov 1995, she became a floating breakwater in
1996. Last seen in July 2016, she was tied up on the Pitt River,
near Surrey, BC, waiting to be broken up. |
Commissioned on 25 Nov 1943, at
Walkerville, Ont., DUNDURN provided warships, patrol craft and coastal outposts on the east
coast with fuel. Here specifications were: Displacement: 950 tons, Length:
178 ft 9 in Beam: 33 ft 2 in, Draught: 13 ft, Speed: 10 kts,
Complement: 12-24. In the later part of 1945 and most of 1946
she was used to off-load fuel from the escort vessels that were being
mothballed. After this job was completed, in November 1946, she was transferred to Esquimalt
with the tug Clifton. She arrived in Esquimalt on 29 Dec 1946 and
was paid off on 02 Jan 1947 from the RCN to serve as a CNAV.
Her duties were various, though primarily used as a inner harbour
fuel ship, she sailed in company with the west coast fleet to San
Diego on one occasion and on others took supplies up to removed
governments outposts on the BC coast. Removed from service on 16 Sep
1996, she was declared surplus on 17 Nov 1995. After a short period
of time, she was sold to the Burrard Yacht Club in Vancouver on 08
May 1996 to be used as a floating breakwater.
Photos and Documents
Commanding Officers
Skpr/Lt A.J. Porter, RCNR - 25 Nov 1943 - 02 Apr 1944
LCdr Roy Milton
Mosher, RCNR - 03 Apr 1944 - 10 Jun 1945
Skpr/Lt Jacob Blackmore, RCNR - 11 June 1945 - unk
In memory of those who have crossed the bar
They shall not be
forgotten
Former Crew Members
Baggs,
Sidney, Skpr, RCNVR - 28 Apr 1944
Schleen, Donald C. 
Photos and Documents

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The launching of DUNDURN at the yards of
the Canadian Bridge Company
Source: Library and Archives of Canada /
MIKAN
3196932
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HMCS DUNDURN in her wartime configuration
DND / RCN Photo
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CNAV DUNDURN in 1970
Source: A History of the West Coast Canadian
Forces Auxiliary Fleet
Photo Credit: CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military
Museum
Photo No. VR994.51.8
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CFAV DUNDURN
Original source unknown
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Former CFAV DUNDURN tied up at Surrey, BC,
waiting to be broken up - 07 Jun 2015
© / Courtesy of Dave Shirlaw 2015
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Former CFAV DUNDURN tied up on the Pitt River,
Surrey, BC, Jul 2016
Courtesy of Rodney Dick
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Former CFAV DUNDURN at Surrey moorage, Fraser
River
© / Courtesy of Matthew McBride 2021
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Former CFAV DUNDURN at Surrey moorage, Fraser
River
© / Courtesy of Matthew McBride 2021
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