HMCS LADY EVELYN

 

Auxiliary Patrol Ship

 


 

HMCS LADY EVELYN

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Launched: 1901

Commissioned: Jun 1917

Paid off: 1919

Sold: 1921

Scrapped: 1936

 

Built by Tranmere, U.K, for a Blackpool firm and originally named Deerhound, she was acquired and renamed by the Postmaster-General's department in 1907. LADY EVELYN's new function was to meet transatlantic mail steamers in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and take off the mail for transfer to trains. She was commissioned in the RCN as a patrol vessel from Jun 1917 to 1919, and survived in commercial service on the west coast until shortly before the Second World War. Her armament was 1-12pdr gun. The Howe Sound Navigation Co. brought the screw steamer LADY EVELYN Evelyn a former Canadian mail packet on the St. Lawrence, to Vancouver in 1921 for operation with Brittania. In 1923 she was bought by the Union Steamship Company of British Columbia and remained with them until 1936, when she was scrapped.

 


 

Photos and Documents

 


 

Commanding Officers

 

Lt Clement Barkhouse, RNCVR - 01 May 1918 - unk

 


 

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

 

Barkhouse, Clement

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Commanding Officer

01 May 1918

Betts, Ronald McKay

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Appointed to LADY EVELYN 01 May 1918 as Lt (N), RNCVR

Betts, Wallace Havelock

1897-1962

Appointed to LADY EVELYN 18 Oct 1917 as a W/T 4c, RNCVR

Clarke, Harry J.

 

 

Dennett, John

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Appointed to LADY EVELYN 12 Jul 1917 and 01 May 1918 as W/T 3c, RNCVR

Evans, Stanley

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Appointed to LADY EVELYN 01 May 1918 as Art (E), RCN

Gulston, Charles Samuel

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Appointed to LADY EVELYN 01 May 1918 as W/T 4c, RNCVR

Gulston, Henry Ford

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Appointed to LADY EVELYN 01 May 1918 as W/T 4c, RNCVR

McCullough, Edward Elroy

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Appointed to LADY EVELYN 01 May 1918 as Mate, RNCVR

Vardy, Charles Ernest

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Appointed to LADY EVELYN 05 Feb 1918 and 01 May 1918 as Mate, RNCVR

Vokes, Carlyle Wainwright

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Appointed to LADY EVELYN 01 May 1918 as Mate, RNCVR

 

 

 

 

 


 

Photos and Documents

 

HMCS LADY EVELYN

 


 

In this photograph, likely taken from HMCS Canada on the day following the Halifax Explosion, HMCS LADY EVELYN (centre) returns to port

George Metcalf Archival Collection CWM 20080041-028

 


 

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