HMCS STE THERESE K366 / 309

 

River Class / Prestonian Class Frigate

 


 

 

Post wartime badge

HMCS Ste Therese 309 - Jun 1962

RCN Photo

 

Battle honours and awards:  Atlantic  1945

 

 

Laid down: 18 May 1943

Launched: 16 Oct 1943

Commissioned: 28 May 1944

Paid off: 22 Nov 1945

Re-commissioned: 22 Jan 1955

Paid off: 30 Jan 1967

Fate: Broken up in 1967

 

Built by Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co. Ltd., she was commissioned on 28 May 1944, at Lévis. She arrived at Halifax early in Jul 1944 and, after preliminary workups in St. Margaret's Bay, proceeded to Bermuda to complete the process. Returning n mid-Aug 1944, Ste. Therese left Halifax in late Oct 1944 to join convoy HX.317 for passage to Londonderry. There she joined EG 25 and served with it in U.K. waters until Feb 1945, when she was re-assigned to EG 28, Halifax. She served locally with EG 28 until the end of the war, and on 22 Nov 1945 was paid off at Sydney and placed in reserve at Shelburne. She re-commissioned on 22 Jan 1955, after conversion to a Prestonian class ocean escort as served as a training vessel the remainder of her career.

 

1966-1967 - HMCS STE THERESE and HMCS NEW GLASGOW WERE tied up at Seward Defence Jetty. The equipment from both ships was being moth balled and stored ashore before they were anchored in harbour in the Black Squadron.

 

STE THERESE was paid off at Esquimalt on 30 Jan 1967. She was broken up in Japan that year.

 


 

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

 

Crossing the Line -Equator - 10 Mar 1959

 


 

Commanding Officers

 

A/Cdr James Evelyn Mitchell, RCNVR - 28 May 1944 - 05 Jul 1945

A/LCdr Alexander Craig Campbell, RCNVR - 06 Jul 1945 - 04 Sep 1945

Lt J. Jackson, RCNVR - 05 Sep 1945 - 26 Sep 1945

Lt G.A. Macpherson, RCNVR - 27 Sep 1945 - 22 Nov 1945

LCdr William Frances Potter, RCN - 22 Jan 1955 - 03 June 1956

LCdr Philip John Pratley, RCN - 04 Jun 1956 - 12 Jan 1958

LCdr Aubrey Ravening Pickels, RCN - 13 Jan 1958 - 25 Apr 1958

LCdr John Burleigh Chapleau Carling, RCN - 24 Jan 1959 - 17 Aug 1960

LCdr A.G. Murray, RCN - 18 Aug 1960 - 16 Aug 1962

LCdr Michael Arthur (Mike) Martin, RCN - 17 Aug 1962 - 02 May 1963

LCdr Peter Gerald May, RCN - 03 May 1963 - unk

LCdr Keith Murray Young, RCN - 30 Oct 1964 - 14 Sep 1965

LCdr Pierre Edouard Gerard Simard, RCN - 15 Sep 1965 - 30 Jan 1967 (OIC)

 


 

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

 

Anderson, Norman G.A.

Bates, Alan W.

Bernuy, Jacques A.

Burck, David

Cameron, Joseph K.

Campbell, William R.

Carver, Robert J.

Clark, Donald S.

Clark, George

Clarkson, Henry L.

Cluff, Charles T.

Crawford, Galered G.

Curry, Walter

Dale, T. Leslie

Day, Alfred D. J.

Downs, Steve

Eastick, David C.

Ebner, Ernest F.

Emberly, William G.

Emberton, Ivor

Etherington, Jack E.

Fahey, Robert G.

Fell, Lloyd A.

Fenwick, Charles W.

Finley, William E.

Fox-Decent, Norman

Fraser, Robert N.

Gallo, Mike

Good, Jack W.

Goodbrandson, Siggi

Grainger, Robert K.

Hall, Gordon F.

Harwood, John

Hawrysh, Frederick J.

Hayley, Al

Hennis, John

Hill, Peter E.

Hodgkins, Frederick W.

Johnson, Kenneth E.

Joyce, Kenneth J. F.

Kahler, Lawrence J.

Kazmiruk, George D.

Kedrosky, Francis J.

Kelbough, Kenneth M.

Kirby, Richmond H.

Kostiuk, Bohdan J. P.

Kovits, William C.

Kutzner, Eric H.

Lambert, Ronald G. P.

Larone, Ronald T.

Leeming, Matthew R.

Logie, Robert D.

Mackie, William A.

Martin, Charles R.

Martin, Michael A.

McArdle, Christopher C.

McComb, G. E. Chris

McLeod, Frank T.

McNair, William

Meadmore, William J.

Miller, David D.

Nute, Darrel E.

Orrick, Robert C.

Parsons, Harvey

Pesclevich, Thomas W.

Pickels, Aubrey R.

Porter, Henry T.

Prokopow, Thomas K.

Roberts, Joseph A.

Roggeveen, Paul A.

Rumberger, Donald T.

Sauder, Wilton H.

Schauer, Ralph

Schuckburgh, Trevor C.

Scougal, Gordon J.

Seager, R. George

Seibel, Arthur J.

Sexsmith, John R.

Simard, Pierre E.G.

Southin, Howard E.

Stenson, Allan E.

Stuart, George E.

Tyre, James A.

Usher, Ewart S.

Vergouwen, Peter J.

Walter, John R. T.

Wareham, Earle A.

Wright, David L.

Young, Keith M.

Young, Ronald M.

Zabrick, Demetro

 

 

 

 

 


 

Former Crew Members

 

Ball, Darrell Allan, SLt, RCNVR - 10 Apr 1944 (Stand by) / 28 May 1944

 

Berbeck, Robert, Jan 1961 - Sep 1962

 

Bradley, Richard Stewart, SLt, RCNVR - 23 Apr 1945

 

Coombes, Robert Arthur, Lt (E), RCNVR - 14 Mar 1944 / 28 May 1944

 

Fowler, William Horace, Lt, RCNVR - 28 Apr 1944

 

Fraser, John Newby, Lt, RCNVR - 20 Mar 1944 / 28 May 1944

Kerr, Henry Kirby, SLt (E), RCNVR - 24 Jun 1944

 

Martin, Charles Raymond, Lt, RCNVR - 28 May 1944

 

Martin, John Abarbanell, Lt, RCNVR - 14 May 1944 / 28 May 1944

 

Mitchell, James Evelyn, LCdr, RCNVR - 02 Apr 1945

 

Montgomer, Richard Alan, Lt (El) (R), RCNVR - 14 Mar 1945

Pendergast, Walter Frederick, Lt, RCNVR  - 21 Feb 1945

 

Rutherford, Robert (Bob), Lt, RCN, NavO - May 1965 - Aug 1965

 

Stew, George E., Signalman

 

Todd, Clarke, Slt, RCNVR - 10 Apr 1944 / 28 May 1944

 


 

Photos and Documents

 

  

HMCS STE THERESE K366

RCN Photos # HS-0753-1R and HS-0753-2R respectively

Censor stamp dated 18 Oct 1944

Courtesy of Sue Peters

HMCS Ste Therese K336 - WW2 jacket patch

From the collection of William Finley

Courtesy of Shawn MacGuire

A cold day at sea on board HMCS Ste Therese K366 - 1945

L-R:  Moore, Whalley, Evans, Glover

From the collection of David E. Glover, LS, RCN

Courtesy of David Glover

6 Mess, HMCS Ste Therese K366 - 1944

 

Click here to see a copy of the photo with the crew numbered

 

(1) Thiffault, L.  (2) Partington, G.  (3) Nisbett  (4) Blundy, P.  (5) French

(6) Jessup  (7) Bell, G., LS  (8) Hooper  (9) Good, N.  (10) Duckworth, T.  (11) Glover, G .

 

From the collection of David E. Glover, LS, RCN

Courtesy of David Glover

 

Sailors on the quarterdeck of HMCS STE THERESE K366

 

Click here to see a copy of the photo with the crew numbered

 

(1) Red Fraser (Hamilton, ON)  (2) Don Rumberger (Senlac, SK)  (3) Bill Whalley (Ottawa, ON)  (4) Chuck Marshall (Ottawa, ON)  (5) Spud Ross (PEI)  (6) George Wilkin  (7) Slim Elliot  (8) Moose McKenzie (Toronto)  (9) Ron Brooks (Toronto)

 

From the collection of Don Rumberger, RCNVR

 

 

---  2nd Commission as a Prestonian Class Frigate  ---

 

HMCS STE THERESE 309 - undated

 

DND / RCN photo

HMCS Ste Therese - 27 Oct 1956

Photographer Walter E. Frost

City of Vancouver Archives

Crossing the Line Ceremony - HMCS Ste Therese 309 - 10 Mar 1959

 

                       

 

Courtesy of Nigel Whiteley, LCdr, RCN, Ret'd

HMCS Ste Therese - 09 May 1959

Photographer Walter E. Frost

City of Vancouver Archives

The boys of Ste. Therese at Fort Derussy, Honolulu

Courtesy of Jim Dobell

 


 

 

 

SH179

 

 

(SH179) HMCS STE THERESE at the Seward Defence Jetty circa 1966 - 1967. All the equipment from the ship was being moth balled and stored ashore before they were anchored in harbour in the Black Squadron.

 

From the collection of Steve Hlasny,CPO2.LT

 


 

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