HMCS MONTREAL K319

 

River Class Frigate

 

 

 

HMCS MONTREAL K319

Jacket patch (1)

HMCS MONTREAL K319

 

Battle honours and awards:  Atlantic  1944-45

 

 

Laid down: 

Launched: 12 Jun 1943

Commissioned: 11 Dec 1943

Paid off: 15 Oct 1945

Fate: Broken up 1947

 

Launched at MONTREAL on 12 Jun 1943, she was commissioned there 12 Nov 1943. She arrived at Halifax on 29 Nov 1943, worked up locally and on 25 Feb 1944 left St. John's for Londonderry to join EG C-4. She was employed continuously on convoy duty until late Sep 1944, when she joined EG 26, then forming at 'Derry. On 17 Dec 1944, she rescued survivors of U 1209, wrecked on Wolf Rock southwest of Land's End. MONTREAL remained in U.K. waters, and for short periods early in 1945 was based at Portsmouth and at Plymouth. She left 'Derry for the last time on 12 Mar 1945 as escort to convoy ON.290. Arriving at Shelburne, N.S., On 31 Mar 1945, she completed tropicalization refit there at the end of Aug 1945 then performed odd jobs out of Halifax until paid off 15 Oct 1945 to reserve in Bedford Basin. Sold in 1947, she was broken up at Sydney.

 

 

Photos and Documents     Ship's company photos

 

 

Commanding Officers

 

LCdr Ronald James Herman, OBE, RCNR - 12 Nov 1943 - 04 Jul 1944

 

LCdr Stanley Warren Howell, RCNR - 05 Jul 1944 - 26 Nov 1944

 

A/LCdr Claude Lane Campbell, RCNVR - 27 Nov 1944 - 26 Jul 1945

 

 

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

 

 

 

Former Crew Members

 

Drope, John Ross Gooderham, Slt, RCNVR - 16 Apr 1945

 

Finch-Noyes, Edward (Ted) William, LCdr - 19 Apr 1944

 

Goodchild, John Wesley Ferguson, Lt (S), RCNVR - 05 Jul 1945

 

Irwin, Patrick Hamilton, Lt, RCNVR - 28 May 1945

Jeffrey, Stanley, SBA - 25 Feb 1944 - 21 Sep 1944

 

Lloyd, John McFarlane, Slt, RCNVR - 09 Apr 1945

 

McAlister, John Scotland, Slt, RCNVR - 24 Apr 1945

 

Perry, Henry

 

 

Photos and Documents

 

HMCS MONTREAL K319

Photo taken from HMCS Wentworth K331

From the collection of Gerald Jenson

Courtesy of James Jenson

HMCS MONTREAL K319 jacket patch

 

Courtesy of Ron Csomany, LCdr, RCN(R), ret'd

 

The story behind the patch:  The patch was given to my mother-in-law by a rating in 1941 or '42 when she was a Wren W/T operator at Ste Hyacinthe. Apparently, the radio station had a complement of 100 Wrens and 3,000 men so the girls always had a date, but not necessarily with the guy they wanted. Her daughter - my wife, Kathie, also LCdr (W), RCN(R), ret'd, - showed it to to one of the speakers at a shad Senior Officers' Conference at Royal Roads in 1984. That gentleman was apparently adamant that this patch (embroidered felt though it is) was actually stitched [painted] onto a canvas gun cover - that is, not a jacket patch.

 

Webmaster's note: Anecdotal evidence from this and other sources indicates that HMCS MONTREAL K319 had gunshield art resembling the patch, but to date, no photo of the artwork has been found

 

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(FY10) John Young on HMCS MONTREAL  (FY11) John Young (right) and unidentified shipmate on HMCS MONTREAL  (FY12) John Young (right) and unidentified shipmates on HMCS MONTREAL (FY13) Unidentified sailors on HMCS MONTREAL  (FY14) John Young (centre) and unidentified shipmates on HMCS MONTREAL  (FY15) Sailors from HMCS MONTREAL ashore, location unknown.  John Young, standing, 2nd from left

 

From the collection of John Bruce Young, AB, RCNVR

 

Courtesy of Greg Young

 

 

 

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