For Posterity's Sake
A Royal
Canadian Navy Historical Project
HMCS
EYEBRIGHT K150
HMCS Eyebright K150 Source:
Flickr photo collection of Ron
Bell
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Laid down: 20
Feb 1940
Launched: 22
Jul 1940
Commissioned:
26 Nov 1940
Transferred
to RCN: 15 May 1941
Commissioned: 15
May 1941
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Paid off: 17
Jun 1945
Returned to the RN: 17
Jun 1945
Sold: 17
May 1947 to commercial use
Fate:
Broken up 1964-65 in Cape Town
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Built for the RN, she was
commissioned at Montreal on 26 Nov 1940 as HMCS Eyebright. She
arrived incomplete at Halifax on 11 Dec 1940 and, after working
up, left on 21 Jan 1941, with convoy HX.104 for Sunderland.
There she was completed on 16 Apr 1941, and proceeded to Tobermory to work
up. Transferred to the RCN on 15 May 1941 and commissioned as HMCS
Eyebright K150, she was later allocated to EG 4 (RN), based at Iceland,
whence she sailed on 12 Jun 1941 to join convoy OB.332 for Halifax. She
joined Newfoundland Command in Jun 1941, and for the next five months
was employed as escort to convoys between St. John's and Iceland. In
Nov 1941 she began a refit at Charleston, S.C., resuming escort duty
late in Jan 1942, and arrived at Londonderry with her first
transatlantic convoy, SC.66, on 06 Feb 1942. In Jan 1943, she
joined EG C-3, and in Jul 1943 commenced two months' refit at
Baltimore, Md., including fo'c's'le extension. Following repairs at
Pictou and workups at Bermuda in the summer of 1944, she joined EG
W-3, WLEF, and saw continuous service in the western Atlantic until
the end of the war, with one further round trip to Londonderry as a
temporary member of EG C-5. Eyebright was returned to the RN at
Belfast on 17 Jun 1945, and sold in 1947 for conversion to a
whale-catcher. She entered service in 1950 as the Dutch Albert W.
Vinke, last appearing in Lloyd's list for 1964-65.
(Note: Although the place & date
of foc'sle extension of HMCS Eyebright (K150) is listed as 21 Aug 43,
at Baltimore, MD, was obtained from official records, photographic
evidence seems to prove this wrong. It is more likely that
Eyebright's Fo'c'le extension was completed between Dec 41, &
Jan 42 Charleston, SC. Source: RCN
News Magazine)
Photos and
Documents
Commanding Officers |
Lt Egbert Randell,
RCNR - 26 Nov 1940 - 24 Jun 1941
Lt Herbert Coates Reynard Davis,
RCNR - 25 Jun 1941 - 11 Feb 1943 Lt
William Watt Hackney, RCNR - 11 Feb 1943 - unk |
Lt Howard Lee Quinn,
RCNVR - unk - 03 Sep 1944
Lt Robert James Margesson,
RCNVR - 02 Sep 1944 - 17 Jun 1945 |
In memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice
Lest We Forget
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DRODY,
William Raymond
LS, A/2747, RCNR
killed - 28 Mar 1941
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In memory of those who have crossed the bar
They shall not be
forgotten |
A-B |

Boyce, Ronald
Gordon
1914-1978
Drafted to Eyebright 01 Jan 1944
as Lt, RCNR |
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C-D |

Davidson,
John Cameron
1921-2008 |
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K-L |

LeFroy,
Peter Anthony
1920-2010
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M-N |

Margesson,
Robert James
1916-2009
5th Commanding Officer |

Moir, Douglas
A.
1923-2006
Served in Eyebright Aug 1944 - May 1945
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Myers,
Alexander
James
1924-2009 |
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O-P |
Pendergast,
James Edward
1925-2011 |
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S-T |

Sanger,
Herbert Edgar
1918-2009 |

Thwaites,
Harold Morton
1925-2010 |
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Former Crew Members
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Crone,
Thomas Henry, Slt, RCNVR - 25 Mar 1943
Campbell,
Peter George Raoul, Lt, RCNVR - Jan 1942
Francis,
Allan Frederick, Slt, RCNVR - 24 Jul 1944
Hardwick,
James, Slt, RCNVR
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Harwood,
Trevor Arnold, Lt, RCNVR - 03 Mar 1942
Johnston,
Roger Windham Squire, Lt, RCNVR - 16 Feb 1944
LeFebvre,
Marcel Lorne, Lt, RCNVR - 15 Feb 1944 |
Mainguy,
James Wishart, Slt, RCNVR - 12 Feb 1943
Ransom,
William James, Slt, RCNVR - 26 Mar 1945
Sexton,
John C., Slt, RCNVR - 03 Feb 1945 |
Photos and Documents
HMCS Eyebright K150
Source: Flickr photo collection
of Ron
Bell
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HMCS Eyebright K150
From the collection of Ivan Chamberlain
Courtesy of Dave Chamberlain |
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