
HMCS
NAPANEE K118
Flower
Class Corvette
HMCS NAPANEE
gunshield art |
HMCS NAPANEE K118
RCN photo
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Laid down: 20
Mar
1940
Launched: 31
Aug 1940
Commissioned: 12 May 1941
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Paid off: 12
Jul 1945
Fate:
Sold to Steel Co. of Canada, Hamilton, Ont., in Jun 1946 and broken
up in the same year.
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Commissioned at Montreal on 12 May
1941, NAPANEE arrived at Halifax on 17 May 1941. She was assigned initially to Sydney
Force but transferred in Sep 1941 to Newfoundland Command, leaving
Sydney for Iceland with convoy SC.47 on 29 Sep 1941. She served on
that route until Jan 1942, when she sailed with SC.65, the
first of many "Newfie-Derry" convoys she would escort
until Aug 1944. The worst of them was ON.154, which lost 14
ships in Dec 1942, but NAPANEE assisted in sinking one of its
attackers, U 356, on 27 Dec 1942. In Mar 1943, she made a side
trip to Gibraltar with EG C-1, which she had joined in Sep 1942. She arrived at Montreal
22 May 1943, for a
five-month refit, including fo'c's'le extension, afterward working
up at Pictou and joining EG C-3. She left 'Derry for the last time
on 03 Aug 1944, refitted again at Pictou, then carried out three
weeks' workup in Bermuda. On her return she joined EG W-2, on the
"triangle run" until the end of the war.
On
03 Feb 1945 Venture GR.V #2266 of 145 Sqn (British) crashed near the convoy
it was escorting in the Atlantic just off Halifax. Sgt J.M. McColman,
Sgt J.M. Northgrave RCAF (USA), F/O R.E. O'Connell and F/O J.M. Smith
missing. ML Q112 and HMCS NAPANEE closed the downed aircraft to search
for survivors, but none were found. The following are statements of
the witnesses to the crash and the events immediately thereafter:
1)
Lt Wallace Duggan,
RCNVR, CO Q112; 2) Lt
Herbert Dow, RCNVR, Q112; 3) AB
RDIII Gerald Merette, RCNVR, Q112; 4) L/Ck
E.I. Seigrig, RCNVR, Q112; 5) Lt
George Powell, RCNVR, CO HMCS NAPANEE; 6) B.
DesCotes, RCNVR, HMCS NAPANEE; and 7) AB
Graeme Ferrier, HMCS NAPANEE
Paid off 12 Jul
1945, at Sorell, she was broken up at Hamilton in 1946.
U-Boats Sunk: (1) U-356
sunk on 27 Dec 1942 by HMCS ST LAURENT H83, HMCS CHILLIWACK K131,
HMCS BATTLEFORD K165 and HMCS NAPANEE K118 in
position 45-30 N, 25-40 W
(2) U-163 (Korvkpt Kurt-Eduard
Engelmann) a type IXC U-boat, on 13 Mar 1943 by HMCS NAPANEE
K118 and HMCS PRESCOTT K161 in the Bay of Biscay. Of her
crew of 57 there were no survivors.
Photos
and Documents Ship's
company photos The
Ship's Bell
Battle
for Convoy BX-141 Battle
for Convoy ONS-154
Battle for ONS 154
Commanding Officers
LCdr Andrew Hedley Dobson,
RCNR - 12 May 1941 - 08 Dec 1941
Lt Stuart Henderson,
RCNR - 09 Dec 1941 - 02 Jun 1944
A/LCdr George Alvin Powell,
RCNVR - 03 Jun 1944 - 12 Jul 1945
In memory of those who have crossed the bar
They shall not be
forgotten
Baird,
Lorne A.
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Bakody,
Howard
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Birch,
Trevor J.W.
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Campbell, Percival
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Chamberland,
Paul H. A.
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Chisholm,
Roderick T.
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Constable, H. T.
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Dawson,
Cyril G. S. |

Dufour,
Gerald J.
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Gillis,
Lawrence F.
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Gillis,
Wilfred J.
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Goodfellow, Philip
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Grant,
Kenneth E.
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Grozdanich,
George H.
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Hatch,
Henry C.
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Henderson, Stuart
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Hulley,
Kenneth
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Jamieson,
Harold T.
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Jones, Harry
H.
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Lumley,
William M.
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Lundquist,
Clarence L.
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McCaw,
Hubert J.
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Patterson,
Malcolm G.
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Pawsey,
Leslie L.
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Pennie, Duff
M.
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Pipe,
Ernest A.
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Powell,
George A.
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Rayment,
Douglas A.
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Robertson,
Robert G.
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Stefanuk,
Maurice
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Stacey, Lewis G.
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Vincent,
Eldon G.
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Vincent, Wesley
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Wood,
Robert L.
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Former Crew Members
Angus, Richard Henry, Lt, RCNVR - 12 May 1941
Blachford, Robert Oswald, SLt, RCNVR - 30 Mar 1942
Caldwell, Sig
Clark, Kenneth Dawson, SLt, RCNVR - 30 Jul 1943
Davies, L/Sig
Dobson, Andre Hedley, LCdr, RCNR - 10 Mar 1941 (Stand by) / 12 May
1941
Evans, Coder
Gillis, L., Tel
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Guest, Kenneth Tufts, SLt, RCNVR - 25 Feb 1942
Hotte, Ronald, Sig
Jordan, L/Coder
Lee, Denis David, SLt, RCNVR - 26 Jul 1943
Lewis, Richard Paul Travers, Mate, RCNR - 12 May 1941
Lindsey, Gordon John, SLt, RCNVR - 26 May 1942 / Lt, RCNVR - 26 May
1943
Martin, Bob, L/Tel
Masion, Sig
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Miller, Robert Dean, Lt, RCNVR - 29 Jan 1945
Mills, Timothy Stuart, Lt, RCNVR - 03 Jun 1944
Owen, Connolly, Sig
Potter, Jerry, Tel, RCN
Russel, Neil J., Lt, RCNVR - XO - 1945
Shorthill, William Walker, SLt, RCNVR - Jan 1945
Taylor, Frederick Jamieson, A/Lt, RCNVR - Jan 1945
Taylor, Lt, Signals Officer
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Photos
and Documents
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Unidentified sailor on HMCS NAPANEE's gun deck with her
gunshield art clearly visible
Courtesy of Roger Litwiller
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HMCS NAPANEE K118
Source: Flickr photo collection of Ron
Bell
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Lt Stuart Henderson receiving a gift of appliances for
HMCS NAPANEE after her refit in Montreal, Oct 1943
From the collection of Stuart Henderson, LCdr, RCN,
ret'd
Courtesy of Rod Henderson
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Officer on HMCS NAPANEE K118
From the collection of Philip Goodfellow
Courtesy of Michael Goodfellow
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Unknown PO by HMCS NAPANEE K118's gunshield art
From the collection of Philip Goodfellow
Courtesy of Michael Goodfellow
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Philip Goodfellow at the chart table on HMCS NAPANEE K118
From the collection of Philip Goodfellow
Courtesy of Michael Goodfellow
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Unknown sailors on HMCS NAPANEE K118
From the collection of Philip Goodfellow
Courtesy of Michael Goodfellow
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HMCS NAPANEE K118 conducting a stern fueling
From the collection of Philip Goodfellow
Courtesy of Michael Goodfellow
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A green officer getting his sea legs
Phillip Goodfellow on HMCS NAPANEE K118
From the collection of Philip Goodfellow
Courtesy of Michael Goodfellow
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Philip Goodfellow (right) and unknown sailor on HMCS NAPANEE
K118
From the collection of Philip Goodfellow
Courtesy of Michael Goodfellow
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Unknown officer on HMCS NAPANEE K118
From the collection of Philip Goodfellow
Courtesy of Michael Goodfellow
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HMCS NAPANEE K113 - note her gunshield art
From the collection of Robert Macklem
Courtesy of Kelly Macklem
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HMCS NAPANEE K118 (left) and HMCS Timmins K223 (right)
at St. John's, Nfld
From the
collection of Dalton Kaye, Tel, RCNVR
Courtesy of Steve Kaye
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(HW08)
NAPANEE on launch day, 31 Aug 1940 at Kingston Shipbuilding Yards (HW09)
NAPANEE being launched (HW10) NAPANEE nearing completion at the Kingston
Shipbuilding yards in Mar 1941
From the collection of Henry
J. (Hank) Winsor, RCNVR
Courtesy of Roger Litwiller
(WL06)
Wesley Vincent, Yeoman of Signals, from Toronto, ON, on HMCS NAPANEE K118
(WL07)
Sailors from HMCS NAPANEE K113 at Jack Dempsey's, New York, New York. L-R: Unknown civilian, Allen
Dixson, Ralph Balum, American sailor,
Bill Lumley
(WL08)
Souvenir from Jack Dempsey's
(WL09)
An HSD, a ship's cook and Bill Lumley (rear) on HMCS NAPANEE K118
(WL10)
Message received by HMCS NAPANEE K118 when she was
about 300 miles off St. John's, Newfoundland
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