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HMCS
LOCH MORLICH K517
Loch
Class Frigate
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HMS LOCH MORLICH K517
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image
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Laid down: 15
Jul 1943
Launched: 25
Jan 1944
Transferred to RCN
Commissioned: 17
Jul 1944
Paid
off: 20
Jun 1945
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Returned to RN:
20 Jun 1945
Transferred
to Royal New Zealand Navy: 01 Apr 1949
Commissioned: 19 April 1949
Paid off: Sep 1951
Fate: Broken up
in
1966
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Built by Swan Hunter & Wigham
Richardson Ltd., at Wallsend-on-Tyne, she was commissioned there on 17 Jul
1944. She joined EG 6 at Londonderry in Sep 1944 after working up at
Tobermory, LOCH MORLICH remained with the group in U.K. waters until the end of
the war, based for short periods at Portsmouth and Plymouth. In Apr 1945, the group was transferred to Halifax and
LOCH MORLICH went along, but left on 29 May 1945 for Sheerness where, with
LOCH ACHANALT, she was paid off on 20 Jun 1945 and returned to the RN. She lay
in reserve at Sheerness until 1949, when she was sold to the Royal
New Zealand Navy and commissioned as HMNZS TUTIRE F517. Paid off in
1951, she was broken up at Hong Kong
in 1966.
Ship's
company photos
Commanding Officers
A/LCdr Leslie Lewendon Foxall,
RCNR - 17 Jul 1944 - unk
LCdr E.G. Old,
RCNR - unk - 25 May 1945
A/Cdr Thomas Gilmour,
RCNR - 26 May 1945 - 20 June 1945
In memory of those who have crossed the bar 
They shall not be
forgotten
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Clark,
Thomas
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Garayt,
Leslie
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Gillespie,
Edward R.
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Hopper,
Cyril
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LaRue,
Georges A.
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Pearson,
John J. K.
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Robinson,
Russell R.
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Tardiff,
Cecil
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Wallace,
Ron
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Westcott,
Alexander G.
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Flakers - Mascot
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Former Crew Members
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Bell,
Clinton Alexander, Surg/Lt, RCNVR - 04 May 1944 / 17 Jul
1944
Christie,
Harold Alexander, Lt, RCNVR - 17 Jul 1944
Clark,
Daniel Fletcher, Lt, RCNVR - 06 Mar 1944 / 17 Mar 1944
Fortier,
Thomas De Blois, Lt, RCNVR - 06 Mar 1944 / 17 Jul 1944
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Foxall,
Leslie Lewendon, A/LCdr, RCNR, CO - 06 Mar 1944 / 17 Mar
1944
Gagnon,
Jacques, Lt, RCNVR - 06 Mar 1944 / 17 Jul 1944
Graham,
Judd
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Sweatman,
Alan, Lt, RCNVR - 05 Jul 1944
Sutherland,
Robert - 1944 - 1945 The Memory Project
Todd,
William Lawrence, Lt (E), RCNVR - 06 Mar 1944 / 17 Jul
1944
Wallace,
Ronald Joseph, Lt, RCNVR - 06 Mar 1944
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Photos and
Documents
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HMS LOCH MORLICH secured to a buoy
on the Tyne
Source: IWM
Ministry of Defence Foxhill Collections of ship photographs FL6042
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Russell Robinson on HMCS LOCH MORLICH K517
From the collection of Russell Robinson
Courtesy of Paul Robinson |
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Unknown sailor on HMCS LOCH MORLICH K517
From the collection of Russell Robinson
Courtesy of Paul Robinson |
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Russell Robinson (standing, facing camera) on
HMCS LOCH MORLICH K517
From the collection of Russell Robinson
Courtesy of Paul Robinson |
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Unknown sailors on HMCS LOCH MORLICH K517
From the collection of Russell Robinson
Courtesy of Paul Robinson |
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Unknown sailors on HMCS LOCH MORLICH K517
From the collection of Russell Robinson
Courtesy of Paul Robinson |
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Unknown ships at St. John's, Newfoundland
Photo taken from HMCS LOCH MORLICH
From the collection of Russell Robinson
Courtesy of Paul Robinson |
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Royal Navy frigate HMS Riou K557
Photo taken from HMCS LOCH MORLICH
From the collection of Russell Robinson
Courtesy of Paul Robinson |
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Cecil Tardiff sitting on a depth charge thrower
on HMCS LOCH MORICH
From the collection of Cecil
Tardiff, RCNVR
Courtesy of Geoff Smith |
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