HMCS PENETANG K676 / 316 - For Posterity's Sake

HMCS PENETANG K676 / 316

River Class / Prestonian Class Frigate

Post wartime badge

HMCS PENETANG K676

Courtesy of the Naval Museum of Halifax

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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.

see also - The history of HMCS Penetang - compiled and handed out at the reunion of the WW2 crew

Photos and Documents Ship's company photos

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

Bobowski, Frank

Browning, Murray R.

Bruce, William E.

Christenson, Robert J.

Former Crew Members

Bower, Len - WW2

Dick, William Arthur, SLt (E), RCNVR - 17 Jul 1944 (stand

by)

Hansen, Svend

Hoey, William Arthur Nelson, Lt, RCNVR - 07 Apr 1945

Holstead, Gordon Ramsey

Johnson, George, Sto - WW2

Lowe, Stanley Cathcard, Lt (E), RCNVR - 13 May 1945

McLeod, Duncan

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

HMCS PENETANG K676

DND / RCN Photo - Crown Copyright

HMCS Penetang K676

From the collection of Aubrey Clark

Courtesy of Bill Robinson

Saskatchewan boys on HMCS Penetang K676

From the collection of Robert Macklem

Courtesy of Bob Macklem

HMCS PENETANG 316

DND / RCN Photo - Crown Copyright