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HMCS
LAUZON K671 / 322
River
Class / Prestonian Class Frigate
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Post wartime badge |
HMCS LAUZON 322
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Laid down: 02
Jul 1943
Launched: 10
Jun 1944
Commissioned: 30
Aug 1944
Paid off:
07 Nov 1945
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Re-commissioned: 12
Dec 1953 pendant number 322
Paid off: 24 May
1963
Fate:
Sold 12 Feb 1964. Final disposition
unknown.
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Built by George T. Davie & Sons
Ltd., she was commissioned on 30 Aug 1944, at Quebec City. LAUZON arrived at Halifax in mid-Oct 1944 and in Nov 1944 spent three
weeks' working up in Bermuda. She arrived at St. John's 30 Nov 1944
to join EG C-6, and was continuously employed as a mid-ocean escort
until VE-Day.
On
03 Jun 1945, HMCS ST LAMBERT was involved in a collision with HMCS
LAUZON. LAUZON received minor upper deck damage. ST LAMBERT'S
damaged consisted of port side frames 6 to 19 bent with 6 of those frames
broken; side and deck plates buckled; forepeak and chain locker leaking at a
rate of one foot per hour. (source: message
from SO C6 041112B Jun 1945)
She left Londonderry 13 Jun 1945 for the last time, and
that summer was employed as a troop-carrier between St. John's and
Quebec City. Paid off on 07 Nov 1945, she was laid up in
reserve at Shelburne, N.S. until purchased in 1946 by Marine
Industries Ltd. The RCN re-acquired her in 1951 for conversion to a
Prestonian class ocean escort. She was re-commissioned on 12 Dec 1953, and assumed a training role on the east coast until
finally paid off on 24 May 1963.
She was sold the following year to a Toronto buyer, presumably for
scrap.
Photos
and Documents Ship's
company photos
Commanding Officers
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LCdr W.
Woods, RCNR - (22 Jun 1944) 30 Aug 1944 - 29 Mar 1945
LCdr Douglas George Jeffrey,
RCNR - 30 Mar 1945 - 10 Apr 1945
A/LCdr John Boyd Graham,
RCNVR - 11 Apr 1945 - 29 Jun 1945
LCdr Francis William
M. Drew,
RCNR - 30 Jun 1945 - 03 Nov 1945
Lt N.M. Stewart,
RCNVR - 04 Nov 1945 - 07 Nov 1945
LCdr Henry Allan Porter,
RCN - 12 Dec 1953 - 04 Jan 1954 |
Cdr Marcel Joseph
Alphonse Jette,
RCN - 05 Jan 1954 - 17 Jul 1955
LCdr James Clifford Carter,
RCN - 18 Jul 1955 - 12 Apr 1957
LCdr Derek Oliver Campfield,
RCN - 13 Apr 1957 - 03 Oct 1958
LCdr William Granville Kinsman,
RCN - 05 Jun 1959 - unk
LCdr Robert Aloysius
Beach, RCN - 19 Mar 1962 - unk
LCdr Charles Edmond
Leighton, RCN - 23 Jan 1963 - 24 May 1963 |
In memory of those who have crossed the bar 
They shall not be
forgotten
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Alley,
Walter G.
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Baker,
Donald F.
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Bosma,
Donald J
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Broadwood,
John L.
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Butler,
Russel A.
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Cameron, J.
Robert
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Carroll,
James D.
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Coutts,
Gordon
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Donnelly,
Thomas M.
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Drew,
Francis W. M.
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Duncan,
Michael J.
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Fox, James
H.
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Gee, Warren
B.
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Goodier,
John A.
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Harwood,
John
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Henbrey,
John E.
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Hodgson,
Michael
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Holstead,
Gordon R.
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Hyslop, John
D.
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Jette,
Marcel J. A. T.
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Kanis, Peter
C.
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Lancaster,
Cullis S. J.
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Large, J.
Donald
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MacGillivray,
Darroch N.
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Marlow,
Russell B.
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McKee, Ian
F.
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Molyard,
John M.
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Morgan,
Gordon E.
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O'Quinn,
Michael T.
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Oliver, W.
Leslie H.
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Parsons,
David R.
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Patterson,
Alvin H.
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Porter,
Henry A.
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Sales,
Norman H.
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Sellars,
Norman E.
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Slater,
Oliver K.
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Turnbull,
Douglas
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Turner,
Bruce A.
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Van
Fleet, Bernard J.
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Venman,
Martin
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Walker,
John W.
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Wilson,
William H.
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Wylie,
Robert
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Former Crew Members
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Burns,
Don - 1954
Byers,
William, LCdr (E), RCNR - 06 Jun 1944
Coleman,
John Royston, SLt, RCNVR - 17 Jul 1944
Craig,
Robert Henry, Surg/Lt, RCNVR - 16 Apr 1945
Loucks,
George Irvin, Lt (E), RCNVR - 30 Jun 1944
McKill,
David Alex, SLt, RCNVR - 14 Apr 1945
Mecredy,
Harold C.
Monaghan,
Terrance Edward, Lt, RCNVR - 17 Jul 1944
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Parks,
Thomas, Lt, RCNVR - 17 Jul 1944
Plaxton,
John Melville, Lt, RCNVR - 22 Jun 1944
Rayner,
Jim, Bos'n
Russelo,
Carl
Stewart,
Norman McGregor, SLt, RCNVR - 10 Jul 1944 Young,
Ron, 31076-H, EM |
Photos
and Documents
HMCS LAUZON K671 entering St. John's
Harbour, NLFD circa 1945
Few
of the photos below, from the collection of Robert Wylie, have any
notes identifying them or the event. All the photos were taken on /
from HMCS LAUZON. Photos comments are based on being able to
identify the background for location or speculation on events.
(RW01-RW02)
HMCS LAUZON K671
(RW03-RW04) Tot time on the quarterdeck of
HMCS LAUZON. Webmaster's note: Appears to be a celebration ...
possibly Splice the Mainbrace for V.E. Day (RW05) Ratings in a
mess deck on HMCS LAUZON
(RW14)
Unidentified sailors on HMCS LAUZON at St. John's, Newfoundland
(RW17)
Depth charge exploding off to starboard of HMCS LAUZON
(RW19)
St. John's, Newfoundland
(RW20) Robert Wylie on the after gun
platform of HMCS LAUZON at St. John's, Newfoundland
(RW21) Unidentified
sailor, London, England
(RW22 - RW24) Surrendered U-Boats in
the Foyle River near Lisahally
From the collection of Robert Wylie,
Sto 1c, RCNVR
Courtesy of Richard Wylie
Post Second World War photos
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HMCS LAUZON 322
Source: Flickr photo
collection of Don
Gorham |
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HMCS LAUZON 322
Source: Flickr photo
collection of Don
Gorham |
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Don Burns (left) and Doug Turnbull on HMCS LAUZON
- 1954
From the collection of Doug Turnbull
Courtesy of Cathi Mietkiewicz |
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Article on HMCS LAUZON upcoming visit to Picton on Wed
02 Sep 1959
The Picton Gazette, 26 Aug 1959
Researched and complied by: © John Lyons 2019
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Newspaper article of the visit of HMCS LAUZON 322 to Picton Bay
The Picton Gazette, 09 Sep 1959
Researched and complied by: © John Lyons 2017
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Newspaper article inviting the public to visit HMCS LAUZON
322 during her visit to
Picton, Ont.
The Picton Gazette 02 Sep 1959
Researched and complied by: © John Lyons 2017 |
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Newspaper article of the visit of HMCS LAUZON 322 to Picton Bay
The Picton Gazette, 09 Sep 1959
Researched and complied by: © John Lyons 2017
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Frigates entering St. John's Harbour -
HMCS LAUZON 322 leading. Circa 1962/63
Courtesy of Jim Steel
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HMCS LAUZON 332 - undated
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HMCS LAUZON 332
RCN Photo # MAG5953
Courtesy of the Comox RCAF Museum
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