HMCS SUMMERSIDE K141

 

Flower Class Corvette

 

 

HMCS SUMMERSIDE K141

Source: Flickr photo collection of Ron Bell

Gunshield art

dated 07 Feb 1943

 

Battle honours and awards:  Atlantic  1941-44,   Gulf of St. Lawrence  1942, 1944,   Normandy  1944,   English Channel  1944-45

 

 

Laid down: 04 Oct 1940

Launched: 7 May 1941

Commissioned: 11 Sep 1941

Paid off: 06 Jul 1945

Fate: Broken up in 1946

 

Commissioned at Quebec City on 11 Sep 1941, SUMMERSIDE arrived at Halifax on 25 Sep 1941. She was assigned to local escort duty out of Halifax and later Sydney but left St. John's on 11 Dec 1941 as ocean escort to SC.59 for Iceland, returning with ON.50. It was to be her only trip there. She left St. John's on 25 Jan 1942, for convoy SC.66 to Londonderry, returning with ON.71 to join WLEF in Mar 1942. 

 

In Jul 1942 she was transferred to Gulf Escort Force until earmarked for duties in connection with Operation "Torch".  She departed Halifax for the U.K. on 19 Oct 1942 as part for the escort for convoy H.X.212 bound for Liverpool.  On 29 Oct 1942 HMCS ROSTHERN and HMCS SUMMERSIDE together picked up survivors from the American tanker Pan-New York that was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-624 in the North Atlantic about 550 nautical miles west of Malin Head in position 54º58'N, 23º56'W. The corvettes sank the wrecked tanker with gunfire and depth charges.

 

After her arrival in the U.K., for the next four months she was employed on U.K-Mediterranean convoys, returning to Canada in mid-Mar, 1943, for a major refit at Saint John from 11 Apr to 25 Sep 1943.  Her fo'c's'le was extended in the process.

 

After working up at Halifax she joined EG C-5 and in Apr 1944, after seven transatlantic trips, was assigned at Londonderry to Western Approaches Command for invasion duties. She was employed in U.K. waters until returning to Canada for two months' refit at Liverpool, N.S., commencing in mid-Oct 1944.  After further repairs at Halifax were completed on 18 Jan 1945, she proceeded to Bermuda for three weeks' workups.

 

In Mar 1945 she sailed for the U.K. to serve with EG 41 (RN) out of Plymouth until the war's end. She returned to Canada at the end of May 1945, was paid off at Sorel on 06 Jul 1945 and broken up at Hamilton in 1946.

 

 

Photos and Documents          Ship's Company Photos

 

 

Commanding Officers

 

LCdr Francis O'Brien Gerity, RCNR - 11 Sep 1941 - 03 Jun 1943

Lt George Enderby Cross, RCNVR - 04 Jun 1943 - 31 Aug 1943

Lt Guy St. Aubin Mongenais, RCNVR - 01 Sep 1943 - 15 Nov 1944

Lt Frank Oatley Plant, RCNVR - 18 Dec 1944 - 06 Jul 1945

 

 

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

 

 

 

Former Crew Members

 

Cross, George Enderby, Lt, RCNVR - 22 Apr 1943

 

Dery, Pierre Yvon, Lt, RCNVR - 02 Apr 1942

 

Gerity, Francis, Lt, RCNR - 19 Jul 1941, CO (Stand by)

Holland, Albert, Lt, RCNVR - 14 Feb 1945

 

Kennedy, Bernard John Patrick, A/War (E), RCNR - Jan 1943

Smythies, Charles Oliver, Lt, RCNVR - Jan 1945

 

White, Clarence Henry Alexander, A/Wt (E), RCNVR - 27 May 1944

 

 

Photos and Documents

 

Gunshield art on HMCS SUMMERSIDE K141 - 1945

 

Credit: Library and Archives of Canada

HMCS SUMMERSIDE K141

Source: Flickr photo collection of Ron Bell

An interview with Everett Malott

The Leamington Post, Tuesday, 31 May 1994

From the collection of Everett Malott

Courtesy of Jake Thomas

Gunshield art on HMCS SUMMERSIDE K141 - photo dates 07 Feb 1943

 

Courtesy of the CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum - photo # 1994.38.133

Unknown sailor standing beside the gunshield art on HMCS SUMMERSIDE K141 - dated 07 Feb 1943

Courtesy of the CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum - photo #  V2000.807.071

 

 

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