For Posterity's Sake
A Royal
Canadian Navy Historical Project
HMCS SUNBEAM
Z42
Then
BIRCHBRANCH (1949)
HMCS Sunbeam
Source: The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces
1910-1981 by Ken Macpherson and John Burgess
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Acquired
by RCN: 1940
Commissioned: 11
Nov 1940
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Paid off: 13
Dec 1945
Fate: Broken up in 1968
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Built in Port Glasgow, NS, she was
launched in 1911. Formerly the Department of
Transport Hopper Barge No. 4, she was acquired by the RCN in 1940
and converted to a fuel oil carrier. Sunbeam was commissioned on 11
Nov 1940, and served as a lighter at Halifax and St. John's
and occasionally as a transport. Paid off on 13 Dec 1945, and
sold into commercial service, she was renamed Birchbranch in 1949.
Her register was closed in 1968, as she had been broken up.
Commanding Officers |
Skpr
Edward Walker
Hannaford, RCNR - 08 May 1941 - 27 June 1943
Skpr/Lt Stanely Francis Ellis,
RCNR - 28 Jun 1943 - unk
Lt James
Arthur Aldhouse, RCNR - 30 Mar 1944 - unk |
Ch/Skpr Ernest Lyman Thompson,
RCNR - 01 Jul 1944 - unk
Skpr/Lt Frederick Joseph James Henderson, RCNR - 22 May
1945 - unk |
Former Crew Members
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Beck,
David Edward, Ch/Skpr, RCNR - 13 Apr 1942
Davie,
Joseph, Skpr, RCNR - 19 Jun 1941
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Digout,
Charles Simon, Skpr, RCNR - Jan 1945
Rose,
George Thomas Clayton, Ch/Skpr, RCNR - 18 Apr 1945 |
Thompson,
Ernest Lyman, Ch/Skpr, RCNR - 28 Jun 1943 / 01 Mar 1945 |
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