HMCS PORT HOPE J280 / 183 - For Posterity's Sake

HMCS PORT HOPE J280 / 183

Bangor Class Minesweeper

HMCS PORT HOPE J280

Laid down: 09 Sep 1941

Launched: 14 Dec 1941

Commissioned: 30 Jul 1942

Paid off: 13 Oct 1945

Re-acquired by RCN: 1952

Fate: Sold for scrap in Feb 1959 and broken up

Commissioned at Toronto on 30 Jul 1942, PORT HOPE arrived at Halifax on 29 Aug 1942 and on completion of workshops, joined Halifax Force. In May 1943, owing to U-boat activity in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, she was transferred to Gaspé Force, but returned to Halifax Force in Nov 1943. In Jan 1944, she was transferred to Newfoundland Force. In Oct 1944 she underwent an extensive refit at Saint John and Halifax, on completion of which she went to Bermuda to work up. Returning, PORT HOPE served a short further stint with Halifax Force from Apr to Jun 1945, then performed miscellaneous duties on the east coast until paid off at Sydney on 13 Oct 1945. She lay in strategic reserve at Sorel until 1952, when the RCN re-acquired her, She was was not re-commissioned, and was sold in February, 1959, for breaking up at Sorel.

Photos and Documents Ship's company photos The Ship's Bell

Commanding Officers

Lt William Turner, RCNR - 30 Jul 1942 - 01 Dec 1942

Lt A.H. Rankin, RCNVR - 02 Feb 1942 - 08 Apr 1943

Lt Richard Kingsley Lester, RCNVR - 09 Apr 1943 - 17 Mar 1944

Lt Robert Michael Montague, RCNVR - 17 Jul 1945 - unk

In memory of those who have crossed the bar

They shall not be forgotten

Nicholson, Walter J.M.

Former Crew Members

Arnet, Andy - Commissioning crew

Brown, John Greenfield, Skpr, RCNR - 23 Jun 1942 (Stand by) / 30 Jul 1942

Coombs, Robert Arthur, Lt (E), RCNVR - 01 May 1943 (Stand by) / 30 Jun 1943

Daly, William Patrick, Lt (E), RCNVR - 09 Mar 1944

Dawson, Thomas Norman, A/Lt, RCNVR - 24 Feb 1945

Edmundson, Joseph William, Wt (E), RCNR - 13 Jul 1942 (stand by) / 30 Jul 1942

Gagnon, Jacques, SLt, RCNVR - 20 Feb 1943

MacLean, Robert

Meredith, Douglas George, SLt, RCNVR - 16 Feb 1945

Nickerson, Donald Earle, Lt, RCNVR - 15 Jun 1942 (Stand by) / 30 Jul 1942

Percival, Alan Fullerton, SLt, RCNVR - Jan 1944

Russell, Norman Gardner, SLt, RCNVR - 16 Mar 1944

Scrivener, Douglas Alfred, A/Lt, RCNVR - 26 Jun 1944

Sowerby, John Cornelius, SLt, RCNVR - 02 Jun 1942 (Stand by) / 30 Jul 1942

Staples, Joseph Lexis Crawford, SLt, RCNVR - 04 Feb 1943

Walker, Roy Arthur, Lt (E), RCNVR - 16 Jun 1945

Weldon, Lawrence Albert

Photos and Documents

Newspaper article - HMCS PORT HOPE J280 Is Being Rapidly Outfitted

The Evening Guide, PORT HOPE, 19 Jan 1942

Newspaper article on HMCS PORT HOPE being adopted by the town of PORT HOPE, Ontario - dated 06 Aug 1942

From the collection of A/Sto PO George Rowlin

Courtesy of Ron Rowlin

HMCS PORT HOPE J280 at PORT HOPE Harbour, July 1942

DND / RCN Photo - Crown copyright

HMCS PORT HOPE J280 Christmas Card

Courtesy of Hugh Muir

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(RP005) Painting (print) of HMCS PORT HOPE J280

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(RP006) Russel Price in a survival suit on HMCS PORT HOPE J280

(RP007) Russel Price (right) with unknown shipmate on HMCS PORT HOPE J280

(RP008) Ernie Langville of Liverpool, NS on the quarterdeck of HMCS PORT HOPE J280

(RP009) George Scott in front of the bridge on HMCS PORT HOPE J280

(RP010) Unknown sailors on the quarterdeck of HMCS PORTE HOPE J280

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(RP009) Unknown sailor on the fo'c's'le of HMCS PORT HOPE J280 taking a photo of the person who took a photo of him. HMCS BUCTOUCHE K179 is in the background to the left side of the photo

(RP010) Sailors splice a line on HMCS PORT HOPE J280

(RP011-RP012) Unknown sailor on HMCS PORT HOPE J280. The 2 photos are of the same sailor taken at different times

(RP013) Unknown sailor on HMCS PORT HOPE J280