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For Posterity's Sake 
A Royal
Canadian Navy Historical Project
HMCS SUNBEAM
Z42
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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.
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Commanding Officers |
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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 |
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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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Two HMCS Sunbeam Christmas cards
From the collection of John
Staples, LSA, RN
Courtesy of Brian Staples
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Unidentified rating on HMCS Sunbeam
From the collection of John
Staples, LSA, RN
Courtesy of Brian Staples
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Unidentified sailors by the ship's boat on HMCS
Sunbeam
From the collection of John
Staples, LSA, RN
Courtesy of Brian Staples
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