HMCS PETERBOROUGH K342

 

Flower Class Corvette

 

 

HMCS PETERBOROUGH K342

 

Laid down: 14 Sep 1943

Launched: 15 Jan 1944

Commissioned: 01 Jun 1944

Paid off: 19 Jul 1945

Fate: Sold for scrap in 1972

 

Commissioned at Kingston on 01 Jun 1944, she arrived at Halifax on 26 Jun 1944 and in Bermuda on 17 Jul 1944 to work up. PETERBOROUGH left Bermuda on 07 Aug 1944 for St. John's, where, in Sep 1944, she joined EG C-6 and sailed for her first convoy, HXF.308, on 18 Sep 1944. Continuously employed as a mid-ocean escort for the rest of her career, she left St. John's on 27 May 1945, to join convoy HX.358, the last HX convoy of the war. In mid-Jun 1945 she left Londonderry for home, where she was paid off on 19 Jul 1945 and laid up at Sorel. She was sold to the Dominican republic in 1947 and renamed Gerardo Jansen, serving until disposed of for scrap in 1972.

 

 

Photos and documents          Ship's company photo          The Ship's Bell

 

 

Commanding Officers

 

Lt John Buxton Raine, RCNR - 20 Mar 1944 - 19 Jul 1945

 

 

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

 

  

 

Former Crew Members

 

Burns, Kenneth Harold, SLt, RCNVR - 17 Apr 1945

 

Chapman, Daniel Gifford, A/War (E), RCNVR - 25 Feb 1944 - Commissioning crew

 

Cleveland, Cyril M. (Blackie)

 

Close, Norman Arthur, SLt, RCNVR - 07 Jul 1944

 

Gander, Robert Billings, SLt, RCNVR - 10 Apr 1944 - Commissioning crew

Heintzman, William Douglas, A/Lt, RCNVR - 02 May 1944 - Commissioning crew

 

Lee, Joseph Parlange, Lt, RCNVR - 05 May 1945

 

McCauley, William Douglas, SLt, RCNVR - 17 Apr 1945

 

Ostler, William Leonard, Lt, RCNVR - 20 Mar 1944 - Commissioning crew

 

 

 

Photos and Documents

 

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PTB002

(PTB001) HMCS PETERBOROUGH K342  //  Courtesy of Kerri Peberdy

(PTB002) Newspaper article wishing luck of the crew of HMCS PETERBOROUGH K342  //  Courtesy of Patricia Bronson

 

 

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(JCT007) HMCS PETERBOROUGH K342 jacket patch

(JCT008) HMCS PETERBOROUGH K342

(JCT009) Unknown frigate - photo taken from HMCS PETERBOROUGH K342

(JCT010) HMCS TILLSONBURG K496 - photo taken from HMCS PETERBOROUGH K342

(JCT011) Unidentified sailors on HMCS PETERBOROUGH K342

 

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(JCT012 - JCT013) Unidentified sailors on HMCS PETERBOROUGH K342

(JCT014) Unidentified sailor with the ship's mascot on HMCS PETERBOROUGH K342

(JCT015 - JCT016) Unidentified sailors on HMCS PETERBOROUGH K342

From the collection of James C. Tory

Courtesy of Bob Tory

 

 

JRC001

JRC002

JRC003

(JRC001) Map of the route taken by the last eastbound (slow) convoy escorted from St. John's, Newfoundland to Londonderry, Northern Ireland by HMCS PETERBOROUGH, May 1945. On the return trip, PETERBOROUGH took the more direct route of the C6 Escort Group.

(JRC002) In December 1944, Telegraphist Jack Coghill of HMCS PETERBOROUGH wrote to Santa Claus (care of the Fleet Mail Office, St. John's, Newfoundland) asking for "125 pounds of the nicest female alive." The Royal Canadian Navy seized on the letter - which arrived before Coghill's convoy reached St. John's - and when Coghill arrived in port in early January 1945, the Navy delivered Wren Beth Prindiville. In the photo, Coghill is "at the top of the gang plank, receiving my mailbag full of cheer".

(JRC003) Bermuda 5 shilling banknote. Jack Coghill obtained this bill when HMCS PETERBOROUGH visited the island in 1944

From the collection of John (Jack) Coghill, Telegraphist, RCNVR

Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia

 

 

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