For Posterity's Sake
A Royal
Canadian Navy Historical Project
HMCS PENETANG
K676 / 316
Post wartime badge |

HMCS Penetang K676
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Battle honours and awards: Atlantic
1945
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Laid down: 22
Sep
1943
Launched: 06
Jul 1944
Commissioned: 19
Oct 1944
Paid off: 10
Nov 1945
Re-commissioned: 01
Jun
1954
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Paid off:
02 Sep 1955
Loaned/Transferred to Norwegian Navy: 10 Mar 1956
Commissioned:
10 Mar 1956
Paid off: 1966
Fate: Broken up
after 1966
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Laid down as HMCS Rouyn, she was
renamed prior to being commissioned. She was commissioned on 19 Oct 1944, at Quebec
City. She left on 06 Nov 1944 for Halifax and in Dec 1944 proceeded to
Bermuda to work up. Returning northward in Jan 1945, Penetang
joined convoy HX.331 at New York as local escort. She was allocated
in February to EG C-9, and made the crossing to the group's
Londonderry base as an escort to SC.168. She spent the rest of the
war as a mid-ocean escort, returning to Canada in Jun 1945, to be
employed as a troop carrier between St. John's and Quebec City. One
of the few frigates not taken in hand for tropicalization, she was
paid off on 10 Nov 1945 and laid up at Shelburne. She was sold in
Dec 1945 to Marine Industries Ltd., but later re-acquired and
converted to a Prestonian class ocean escort, re-commissioned on 01
Jun 1954. Again paid off on 02 Sep 1955, she was lent to
the Norwegian navy on 10 Mar 1956 and re-named Draug. Transferred
outright three years later, she served until 1966 and was then
broken up at Oslo, Norway
Photos and Documents
Ship's
company photos
see also - The
history
of HMCS Penetang - compiled and handed out at the reunion of the WW2 crew
Commanding Officers |
A/LCdr A.R. Hicks,
RCNVR - 19 Oct 1944 - 22 Aug 1945
Lt E.M. Lutes,
RCNVR - 23 Aug 1945 - 10 Nov 1945
Cdr Breen Philip Young, MBE,
RCN - 01 Jun 1954 - 04 Nov 1954 |
Cdr V. Browne,
RCN - 05 Nov 1954 - 13 Dec 1954
LCdr J.M. Paul,
RCN - 14 Dec 1954 - 02 Sep 1955
LCdr Arthur Hatheway McDonald, RCN
- 05 Jan 1956 - 25 Jan 1956 |
In memory of those who have crossed the bar
They shall not be
forgotten |
A-B
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Bobowski,
Frank
1924-2009 |

Bruce,
William Ernest
____-2007 |
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C-D |

Clark,
Aubrey Ernest
1924-2000 |

Curry,
Victor S.
1919-1996 |

Dick,
Sidney Alexander
____-____
Drafted to Penetang on 03 Jul
1944 at Lt (E), RCNVR (Standby) |
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E-F |

Figuary,
Gerald
Robye
1932-2010 |
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G-H |

Glover,
James Arthur Garwood
1932-2013
Commissioning Crew
2nd Commissioning |

Hunter,
James Campbell
1922-2008 |
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M-N |

MacIntyre,
Norman Elwell
____-2015 |

Macklem,
Robert
____-2014 |

McGuire,
Allan J.
____-2005 |

Nordlund,
Hough Arnold
1922-2016 |
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O-P |
Paul,
Joseph Morrison
____-2004 |
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Q-R |

Rhymes,
Reginald Heber
1926-2006
Served
in Penetang 09 Jan 1956 - 24 Jan 1956 as a P2TD3, RCN
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S-T |
Turner,
Bruce Archie
1919-2013 |
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Y-Z |

Young,
Breen Philip
1912-1956
3rd Commanding Officer |
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Former Crew Members
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Bower, Len - WW2
Dick, William Arthur, Slt (E), RCNVR - 17 Jul 1944 (stand
by)
Hansen, Svend
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Hoey, William Arthur Nelson, Lt, RCNVR - 07 Apr 1945
Johnson, George, Sto - WW2
Lowe, Stanley Cathcard, Lt (E), RCNVR - 13 May 1945
McLeod, Duncan
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McDonald, Tom, L/Sto - WW2
Moriarty, Joseph Edmund, Surg/Lt, RCNVR - 26 Jan 1945
Stapley, Reginald George, Lt, RCNVR - 07 Apr 1945 |
Photos and
Documents

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HMCS Penetang K676
From the collection of Aubrey
Clark
Courtesy of Bill Robinson |

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Wardroom HMCS Penetang, Christmas 1954
From the photo collection of
Lt VS Curry, CD, RCN (Ret'd)
Courtesy of Gerry Curry |

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Wardroom HMCS Penetang, Christmas 1954
From the photo collection of
Lt VS Curry, CD, RCN (Ret'd)
Courtesy of Gerry Curry |

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Wardroom HMCS Penetang, Christmas 1954
VS Curry (back row, 6 from right), Gerry
Curry is the young boy in the centre
From the photo collection of
Lt VS Curry, CD, RCN (Ret'd)
Courtesy of Gerry Curry |

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HMCS Penetang entering St. John's, Nfld
From the photo collection of
Lt VS Curry, CD, RCN (Ret'd)
Courtesy of Gerry Curry |

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HMCS Penetang 316
From the photo collection of
Lt VS Curry, CD, RCN (Ret'd)
Courtesy of Gerry Curry |

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HMCS Penetang at speed
National Defence photograph
From the photo collection of
Lt VS Curry, CD, RCN (Ret'd)
Courtesy of Gerry Curry |

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HMCS Penetang 316
National Defence photograph
From the photo collection of
Lt VS Curry, CD, RCN (Ret'd)
Courtesy of Gerry Curry |


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Newspaper article on the reunion of HMCS
Penetang's WW2 crew members - Sep 1983
From the collection of Aubrey
Clark
Courtesy of Bill Robinson |
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