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For Posterity's Sake 
A Royal
Canadian Navy Historical Project
HMCS GRILSE
71
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HMCS Grilse SS71
Source: City of Vancouver Archives.
Photographer Walter E. Frost
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Laid down: 24
Feb 1943
Launched: 18
Jun 1943
Commissioned:
13 Sep 1943
Paid
off: 11 May 1961
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Commissioned in the RCN: 11 May 1961
Paid off: 02
Oct 1969
Returned to USN:
02 Oct 1969
Fate: Sunk
as a target on 19 Nov 1969
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Ship's sponsor: Mrs. P. Sevigny
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Commissioned as USS Burrfish on 13 Sep
1943, she was borrowed
from the USN and commissioned as HMCS Grilse on 11 May 1961 at New
London, CT. After
she was paid off she was returned to the USN. On 19 Nov 1969 she was
sunk as a target off San Clemente Island, CA.
Photos
and Documents Commissioning
book The
Ship's Bell
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Commanding Officers |
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LCdr Edmond Gilbert Gigg,
RCN - 11 May 1961 - 02 Dec 1962
LCdr G.C. McMorris,
RCN - 03 Dec 1962 - 27 Sep 1964 LCdr J.
Rodocanachi,
RCN - 28 Sep 1964 - 09 Sep 1966 |
LCdr Maurice Tate, RCN - 09 Sep 1966 -
20 Aug 1968 LCdr Carl Edwin Falstrem, RCN
- 20 Aug 1968 - 02 Dec 1968 |
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In memory of those who have crossed the bar
They shall not be
forgotten |
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A-B
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Barker,
Michael John
1940-2007 |
Bell, J.C.
____-____
Commissioning crew as P1FC4 |
Bell,
James Duncan
1926-2015
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Bond,
John Vernon
1937-2015
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Brown,
William DeWitt
1930-2017
Commissioning crew as LSEM2
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Button,
Fred J.
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C-D |
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Dykes,
John Russell
1938-2008 |
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E-F |
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Fahey,
Robert Gary
1940-2013
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Fast,
Allen
1934-2017
Commissioning Crew as ABRM2
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Fisher,
Brian John
____-2017
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Fitzgerald,
James O'Neill
____-2017
Commissioning crew as a Lt |
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G-H |
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Gibbard,
Douglas Hawley
____-2003
Commissioning crew as P1SN4 |
Gigg,
Edmund Gilbert
1924-2013
1st Commanding Officer
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Gunning,
Charles T.
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Hansen,
Walter P.
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Hendry,
Ian G.
1932-2017
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Hinde,
James R.
1932-2017
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Holland,
Orville Derrick 1929-2016
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Howatson,
William Frederick
____-2013
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Hunt,
Raymond Charles
1933-2019
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Huzzey,
Givelin
1924-2001
Commissioning crew as P2WU2
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I-J |
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Irvine, Kenneth George
1936-2001
Served in Grilse 1964-1966 and
1968 |
Jennings,
Brian
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Johnson,
Peter Claude 1941-2018 |
Jones,
Edward Victor ____-1988 |
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K-L |
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Kirk,
Peter A.
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Langlois,
Howard Francis Sr.
1931-2002
Commissioning crew as P2CK3 |
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M-N |
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MacKay, Roy
Allan
1929-2019 |
Marginet,
Raymond E. |
McKerracher,
Donald H.
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McMorris,
George C. |
Nesbit,
Keith G. |
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O-R |
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Ormsby,
Bryan
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Orton, R.
____-____
Commissioning crew as LSET3 |
Rodocanachi,
John A. |
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S-T |
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Salaga,
Steven A.
1932-2018 |
Sexsmith,
John R. |
Sinkinson,
Brian L. |
Smith,
Gordon J. |
Tate,
Maurice |
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Therrien,
Bert
1938-2011 |
Thompson,
Roy George
1927-2012 |
Thomson,
William G.
1933-2016 |
Tudor,
David T.
1926-2008 |
Turner,
Henry M. 1935-2017 |
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W-X |
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Wavryk,
Walter Lawrence
____-2015
Commissioning crew as LSSN3 |
Webster,
Harry Alexander
1936-2017 |
Wood, James
C. |
Woolgar,
David E. 1930-2017 |
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Y-Z |
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Yurgensen,
Wilfred G. |
Zerbin,
Helmut
1927-2016 |
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Photos
and Documents
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HMCS Grilse celebrating her 4th
anniversary in the RCN, May 11, 1965
Source: CROWSNEST
Magazine, Vol 17, No. 5, May 1965
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The
older submarines had to do a dive daily. HMCS Grilse
came up from her dive with an derelict boat caught in her vents and
transferred it to HMCS Antigonish where it
immediately fell apart. This was in the Pacific ocean in April 1966. These
photo show the various stage of transferring the dingy to HMCS
Antigonish. HMCS
St Croix and HMCS Stettler are doing a
transfer in the background.
Courtesy of Robert
Berbeck |
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HMCS
Grilse 71 and HMCS Antigonish proceeding through the first lock on
the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal, heading back to Esquimalt -
Feb 1966
Courtesy of Robert Berbeck
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Left
to right: HMCS Cape Scott 101, HMCS Grilse 71, and HMS Acheron.
Foreground: HMCS St. Croix (left), HMCS Antigonish (right). Recife,
Brazil, Feb 1966
Courtesy of Robert Berbeck
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Article on HMCS Grilse's post-refit "fast
cruise" and operations
Crowsnest Magazine, January 1965, Page 24
Courtesy of Brian Lapierre
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