HMCS KAPUSKASING J326 / 171 - For Posterity's Sake

For Posterity's Sake

A Royal Canadian Navy Historical Project

HMCS KAPUSKASING J326 / 171

Then CFAV KAPUSKASKING 173

Wartime jacket patch

HMCS Kapuskasing J326

Post wartime badge

Battle honours and awards: Atlantic 1944-45

Laid down: 19 Dec 1942

Launched: 22 Jul 1943

Commissioned: 17 Aug 1944

Paid off: 27 Mar 1946

Transferred to Dept of Mines and Technical Surveys: 1949

Transferred to Auxiliary fleet: 1972

Fate: Sunk as a target ship 03 Oct 1978

Commissioned at Port Arthur on 17 Aug 1944, Kapuskasing arrived at Halifax early in Sep 1944 and on 01 Oct 1944 proceeded to Bermuda to work up. She returned to Halifax in mid-Nov 1944 and was assigned as Senior Officer's ship to EG W-1 of Western Escort Force When the force was disbanded in Jun 1945, she was placed temporarily in maintenance reserve at Sydney, then taken to Halifax for refit in Nov 1945. On completion of the refit, she was paid off into reserve on 27 March 1946. In 1949, she was loaned to the Department of Mines and Technical Surveys and converted for hydrographic survey work. Returned to the Navy in 1972 and based in Halifax Kapuskasing became part of the navy’s auxiliary fleet (pennant number 173), manned by a civilian crew until she was expended as a target on 3 October 1978.

Photos and Documents Ship's company photos

Commanding Officers
LCdr Angus Hetherington Rankin, OBE, RCN - 17 Aug 1944 - 02 Sep 1945	Lt G.M. Kennelly, RCNVR - 22 Oct 1945 - unk

In memory of those who have crossed the bar They shall not be forgotten
A-B
Bell, Joe ____-2014	Blackmore, S. Barry ____-2002
C-D
Constable, Douglas Franklin 1925-2010	Cunningham, Ronald George 1924-2006
E-F
Favreau, Jean-Marc 1924-2003 Served in Kapuskasing in 1944 as Gunnery Officer
K-L
Kilford, Roy 1920-1992 Served in Kapuskasing as a Stoker	Leary, James ____-2004
M-N
McHugh, James Chase ____-2014	Munroe, Frank Charles 1922-2014
Q-R
Rousseau, Charles Hector ____-2005
S-T
Thompson, Herbert A, ____-1999 Served in Kapuskasing during WW 2	Trepanier, Joseph Bernard ____-2011

Former Crew Members

Bragg, Percival Dean, Lt, RCNVR - 17 Jul 1944 (Stand by)

Favreau, Jean Marc, Slt, RCNVR - 17 Jul 1944 (Stand by)

Ferguson, Keith Allister, Lt (El) (R), RCNVR - 16 Mar 1945

Gardiner, John Hamilton, Surg/Lt, RCNVR - 05 Feb 1945

Greason, James Wilfred, Lt (E), RCNVR - 07 Mar 1945

Hodgson, David Yuile, Lt, RCNVR - 03 Apr 1945

Lewis, David James, Lt, RCNVR - Jan 1945

Lewis, Zachery Westopp Traver, A/Lt, RCNVR - 05 Mar 1945

Morehouse, Sidney Judson, Lt (E), RCNVR - 25 Jun 1945

Rankin, Angus Hetherington, LCdr, RCN - 21 Jun 1944 (Stand by) CO

Scott, Wallace Andrew William, Slt, RCNVR - 22 Jul 1944 (Stand by)

Turner, John Russell, A/Wt (E), RCN - 01 May 1944

Photos and Documents

	Jacket patch for HMCS Kapuskasing J326 From the collection of James (Jimmy) Leary Courtesy of Gerry Leary
	HMCS Kapuskasing conducting a stern fueling with a oil tanker while escorting a convoy From the collection of Charles Rousseau Courtesy of Pierre Rousseau
	Sailors from HMCS Kapuskasing J326 ashore in Bermuda Oct-Nov 1944 Jim Laing first on left From the collection of Jim Laing Courtesy of Gerry Laing
	The former HMCS Kapuskasing being prepared to be towed out to sea as a live-fire target - 03 Oct 1978 Courtesy of the Assistant Royal Canadian Navy Heritage Officer
	The former HMCS Kapuskasing awaiting her fate as a live-fire target - 03 Oct 1978 Source: Canadian Forces Joint Imaging Centre in Ottawa Courtesy of Don Smith

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