HMCS PENETANG K676 / 316 - For Posterity's Sake

For Posterity's Sake

A Royal Canadian Navy Historical Project

HMCS PENETANG K676 / 316

Post wartime badge

HMCS Penetang K676

Battle honours and awards: Atlantic 1945

Laid down: 22 Sep 1943

Launched: 06 Jul 1944

Commissioned: 19 Oct 1944

Paid off: 10 Nov 1945

Re-commissioned: 01 Jun 1954

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

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
Bobowski, Frank 1924-2009	Bruce, William Ernest ____-2007
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Christenson, Robert J.	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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Figuary, Gerald Robye 1932-2010
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Glover, James Arthur Garwood 1932-2013 Commissioning Crew 2nd Commissioning	Hunter, James Campbell 1922-2008
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MacIntyre, Norman Elwell ____-2015	Macklem, Robert J.	McGuire, Allan J. ____-2005	Nordlund, Hough Arnold 1922-2016
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Paul, Joseph Morrison ____-2004
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Rhymes, Reginald Heber 1926-2006 Served in Penetang 09 Jan 1956 - 24 Jan 1956 as a P2TD3, RCN
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Turner, Bruce Archie 1919-2013	Wales, John	Young, Breen Philip 1912-1956 3rd Commanding Officer