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For Posterity's Sake 
A Royal
Canadian Navy Historical Project
HMCS
NORTH BAY K339
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Laid down: 29
Sep
1942
Launched: 27
Apr 1943
Commissioned: 25
Oct 1943
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Paid off: 01
Jul 1945
Fate:
Final disposition unknown
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Built at Collingwood, she was commissioned there on
25 Oct 1943. North Bay arrived at Halifax on 29 Nov 1943, and in Dec
1943 carried
out workups in St. Margaret's Bay. On completion of these she was
assigned to EG 9, Londonderry, making her passage there as escort to
convoy SC.154 early in Mar 1944. When EG 9 became a frigates-only
group, North Bay returned to St. John's in Apr 1944 and became a member
of EG C-4. From 11 Dec 1944 to mid-Feb 1945, she underwent a
refit at Sydney and proceeded to Bermuda to work up. On completing
this exercise she sailed directly to St. John's to join EG C-2, but
later in Apr 1945 she was transferred to C-3 and, on 30 Apr 1945, left St.
John's to join convoy SC.174 for a final trip to Londonderry. She
returned in May 1945 with ON.304 and was paid off on 01 Jul 1945 and laid up
at Sorel. In 1946 she was sold for merchant service and became the Bahamian Kent County II;
renamed
Galloway Kent in 1950; renamed Bedford II in 1951.
Photos and Documents
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Commanding Officers |
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Lt B. Hynes,
RCNVR - 25 Oct 1943 - 29 Jun 1944
Lt John Norrison Finlayson,
RCNVR - 30 Jun 1944 - 11 Aug 1944
A/LCdr B. Hynes - 12 Aug 1944 - 23 Jan
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Lt Jack Wiles Radford,
RCNR - 24 Jan 1945 - 18 Feb 1945
LCdr Alexander Craig Campbell,
RCNVR - 19 Feb 1945 - 01 Jul 1945 |
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Former Crew Members
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Brown,
Arnold Robert Henry, Slt, RCNVR - 11 Feb 1945
Hamilton,
Robert Pentrose, Lt, RCNVR - 03 Apr 1945
Henry,
Ross Arthur Cecil, A/Lt, RCNVR - 01 Jul 1944
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Lawless,
Edward Patrick, A/Lt, RCNVR - Jan 1944
MacGregor,
Ian, Slt, RCNVR - 27 Apr 1945 |
Simonton,
Robert Grant, Slt, RCNVR - 15 Mar 1945
Whittaker,
Ralph, A/War (E), RCNVR - Jan 1944 |
Photos and Documents
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Personnel loading a
Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar during trials aboard HMCS North
Bay, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 1943
Source: Lt Gerald T.
Richardson / Canada. Dept. of National Defence / Library and
Archives Canada PA-114737
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M.V. Galloway Kent, former corvette North
Bay, converted to a merchant ship by Steel and Engine
Products, Liverpool, NS in 1946
Click
here to read the back of the photo
From the collection of Hector Dunlop
Courtesy of Jane Dunlop Stevenson,
Liverpool, NS
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M.V. Galloway Kent
From the collection of Hector Dunlop
Courtesy of Jane Dunlop Stevenson,
Liverpool, NS |
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HMCS North Bay K339
Photo taken from HMCS Wentworth K331
From the collection of Gerald Jenson
Courtesy of James Jenson |
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