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HMCS GRILSE
71
USN
Balao Class Submarine
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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 Ship's
Company Photos The
Ship's Bell
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 |
In memory of those who have crossed the bar 
They shall not be
forgotten
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Barker,
Michael J.
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Bell, J.C.
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Bell,
James D.
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Bond,
John V.
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Brown, Donal
J.
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Brown,
William D.
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Button,
Fred J.
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Claxton, C.
Darryl
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Coulter,
Reginald B. |
Duguid,
William H.
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Dunn,
Michael A.
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Dykes,
John R.
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Ebner, Ernest
F.
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Fahey,
Robert G.
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Fast,
Allen
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Fisher,
Brian J.
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Fitzgerald,
James O'N.
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Gibbard,
Douglas H.
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Gigg, Edmund
G.
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Gunning,
Charles T.
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Hansen,
Walter P.
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Hendry,
Ian G.
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Hinde,
James R.
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Holland,
Orville D.
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Howatson,
William F.
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Hunt,
Raymond C.
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Huzzey,
Givelin
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Irvine, Kenneth G.
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Jennings,
Brian
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Johnson,
Peter C. |
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Jones,
Edward V.
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Kirk,
Peter A.
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Langlois,
Howard F.
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MacKay, Roy
A.
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Marginet,
Raymond E. |
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McKerracher,
Donald H.
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McMorris,
George C.
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Nesbit,
Keith G.
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Ormsby,
Bryan
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Orton, R.
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Rodocanachi,
John A.
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Salaga,
Steven A.
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Sexsmith,
John R.
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Sinkinson,
Brian L. |
Smith,
Gordon J. |
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Tate,
Maurice
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Therrien,
Bert
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Thompson,
Roy G.
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Thomson,
William G.
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Tudor,
David T.
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Turner,
Henry M.
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Wavryk,
Walter L.
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Webster,
Harry A.
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Wood, James
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Woolgar,
David E. |
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Yurgensen,
Wilfred G.
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Zerbin,
Helmut
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Former Crew Members
Brower-Berkhoven, Isaac
Scott, Jim, MA
Photos
and Documents
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Commissioning crew of HMCS GRILSE broken
down by home provinces
Courtesy of Brian Lapierre |
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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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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 COTT 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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HMCS GRILSE - undated
DND / RCN photo
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HMCS GRILSE - undated
DND / RCN photo
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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
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