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HMCS
STE THERESE K366 / 309
River
Class / Prestonian Class Frigate
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Post wartime badge |
HMCS Ste Therese 309 - Jun 1962
RCN Photo
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Battle honours and awards: Atlantic
1945
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Laid down: 18 May 1943
Launched: 16
Oct 1943
Commissioned: 28 May
1944
Paid off: 22
Nov 1945
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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,
finally being 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
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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
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Anderson,
Norman G.A.
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Bates,
Alan W.
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Bernuy,
Jacques A.
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Burck,
David
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Cameron,
Joseph K.
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Campbell,
William R.
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Carver,
Robert J.
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Clark,
Donald S.
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Clark,
George
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Clarkson,
Henry L.
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Crawford,
Galered G.
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Curry,
Walter
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Dale, T.
Leslie
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Day,
Alfred D.J.
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Downs,
Steve
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Eastick,
David C.
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Ebner, Ernest
F.
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Emberly,
William G.
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Emberton,
Ivor
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Etherington,
Jack E.
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Fahey,
Robert G.
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Fell,
Lloyd A.
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Fenwick,
Charles W.
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Finley,
William E.
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Fox-Decent,
Norman |
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Fraser,
Robert N.
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Gallo,
Mike
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Good,
Jack W.
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Goodbrandson,
Siggi
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Grainger,
Robert K.
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Hall,
Gordon F.
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Harwood,
John
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Hawrysh,
Frederick J.
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Hayley,
Al
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Hennis, John
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Hill, Peter
E.
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Hodgkins,
Frederick W.
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Johnson,
Kenneth E.
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Joyce, Kenneth
J.F.
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Kahler,
Lawrence J.
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Kazmiruk,
George D.
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Kedrosky,
Francis J.
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Kelbough,
Kenneth M.
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Kirby,
Richmond H.
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Kostiuk,
Bohdan J.P.
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Larone,
Ronald T.
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Leeming,
Matthew R.
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Logie,
Robert D.
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Mackie,
William A.
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Martin,
Charles R.
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Martin,
Michael A.
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McArdle,
Christopher C.
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McComb,
Gerald E.C.
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McLeod,
Frank T.
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McNair,
William
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Miller,
David D.
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Nute,
Darrel E.
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Parsons,
Harvey
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Pesclevich,
Thomas W.
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Pickels,
Aubrey R.
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Porter,
Henry T.
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Prokopow, Thomas
K.
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Roberts, Joseph
A.
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Roggeveen,
Paul A.
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Rumberger,
Donald T.
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Sauder,
Wilton H.
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Schauer,
Ralph
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Schuckburgh,
Trevor C.
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Seager, R.
George
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Seibel,
Arthur J.
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Sexsmith, John
R.
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Simard,
Pierre E.G.
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Southin,
Howard E.
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Stenson,
Allan E.
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Stuart,
George E.
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Usher,
Ewart S.
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Vergouwen,
Peter J.
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Walter, John
R.T.
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Wareham,
Earle A.
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Wright,
David L.
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Young,
Keith M.
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Young,
Ronald M.
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Zabrick,
Demetro
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Former Crew Members
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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
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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
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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
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Photos and Documents
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HMCS STE THERESE K366
RCN Photos # HS-0753-1R and HS-0753-2R
respectively
Censor stamp dated 18 Oct 1944
Courtesy of Sue Peters |
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HMCS Ste Therese K336 - WW2 jacket patch
From the collection of William Finley
Courtesy of Shawn MacGuire
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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
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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
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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
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--- 2nd Commission as a Prestonian
Class Frigate ---
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HMCS STE THERESE 309 - undated
DND / RCN photo
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HMCS Ste Therese - 27 Oct 1956
Photographer Walter E. Frost
City of Vancouver Archives
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Crossing the Line Ceremony - HMCS Ste Therese
309 - 10 Mar 1959
Courtesy of Nigel Whiteley, LCdr, RCN, Ret'd |
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HMCS Ste Therese - 09 May 1959
Photographer Walter E. Frost
City of Vancouver Archives
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The boys of Ste. Therese at Fort Derussy, Honolulu
Courtesy of Jim Dobell |
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HMCS
Ste Therese and HMCS New Glasgow tied up at Seward Defence Jetty circa 1966
- 1967. All ships equipment was being moth balled and stored ashore before
they were anchored in harbour in the Black Squadron.
Courtesy of
Steve Hlasny |
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