HMCS OUTREMONT K322 / 310 - For Posterity's Sake

For Posterity's Sake

A Royal Canadian Navy Historical Project

HMCS OUTREMONT K322 / 310

Post wartime badge

HMCS Outremont K322

Battle honours and awards: Atlantic 1944, Normandy 1944

Laid down: 18 Nov 1942

Launched: 03 Jul 1943

Commissioned: 27 Nov 1943

Paid off: 05 Nov 1945

Re-commissioned: 02 Sep 1955

Paid off: 07 Jun 1965

Fate: Broken up in 1966

Built at Quebec City, she was commissioned there on 27 Nov 1943. Outremont arrived at Halifax on 13 Dec 1943 and carried out working-up exercises in St. Margaret's Bay. She left St. John's on 17 Feb 1944, to join EG 6, Londonderry, and served mainly on escort and patrol duties in U.K. waters. On 28 Apr 1944, Outremont, in company with Waskesiu K330, Grou K518 and Cape Breton K350 departed Kola Inlet with Convoy RA.59; arriving at Loch Ewe on 06 May 1944. Outremont was present off Normandy on D-Day. She left the U.K. on 30 Nov 1944 for tropicalization refit at Sydney, which kept her idle until 20 Aug 1945, only to be paid off on 05 Nov 1945 and sold to Marine Industries Ltd. Later re-acquired by the RCN and converted to a Prestonian class ocean escort, she was re-commissioned 02 Sep 1955, and served in a training role until finally paid off 07 Jun 1965, and arrived at La Spezia on 11 Apr 1966 for breaking up.

Commanding Officers

A/LCdr Harry Freeland, DSO, RCNR - 27 Nov 1943 - 11 Aug 1944

LCdr F.O. Gerity, RCNR - 12 Aug 1944 - 05 Nov 1945

LCdr J.M. Paul, RCN - 02 Sep 1955 - 07 May 1956

LCdr Peter Godwin Chance, RCN - 08 May 1956 - 25 Apr 1957

LCdr Marcus Ormond Jones, RCN - 26 Apr 1957 - 08 Oct 1958

LCdr C.J. Benoit, DSC, RCN - 09 Oct 1958 - 12 Apr 1960

LCdr Stanley Mackenzie King, RCN - 13 Apr 1960 - 07 Mar 1961

LCdr James Andrew Fulton, RCN - 08 Mar 1961 - 02 Sep 1962

LCdr J.R.H. Ley, RCN - 03 Sep 1962 - 20 Jun 1964

LCdr Richard Lockwood Donaldson, RCN - 21 Jun 1964 - 07 Jun 1965

In memory of those who have crossed the bar They shall not be forgotten
A-B
Bonter, George Milton ____-2012	Bruce, William Ernest ____-2007	Burnett, Edward Coutts 1921-1999
C-D
Curry, Victor S. 1919-1996	Denomey, David Raymond E. 1940-2017
K-L
Kirby, Richmond Hill 1929-2006	Kuresh, James William 1943-2014	Luke, Robert John 1931-2012
M-N
MacIntyre, Norman Elwell ____-2015	Neal, Derek James 1931-2003	Nash, Michael Patrick 1920-2005	Newman, Ernest M. 1916-1982 Served in Outremont during WW2
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Paul, Joseph Morrison ____-2004
Q-R
Reid, John McCammon ____-2013 Served in Outremont post WW 2	Ricketts, Allen G. 1923-2007
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Thompson, Joseph Victor 1925-2016 Served in Outremont during WW 2