HMCS SUSSEXVALE K683 / 313

 

River Class / Prestonian Class Frigate

 


 

 

Post WW2 Badge

HMCS SUSSEXVALE K683

 

Battle honours and awards:  Atlantic  1945

 

 

Laid down: 15 Nov 1943

Launched: 12 Jul 1944

Commissioned: 29 Nov 1944

Paid off: 16 Nov 1945

Re-Commissioned: 18 Mar 1955

Paid off: 30 Nov 1966

Fate: Broken up in 1967

 

Launched on 12 Jul 1944, she was the last  frigate launched for the RCN. SUSSEXVALE was commissioned on 29 Nov 1944, at Quebec City, and arrived at Halifax on 16 Dec 1944. She left on 08 Jan 1945, for a months' workups in Bermuda, on completion of which she was assigned to EG 26. She arrived in Londonderry to join the group on 06 Mar 1945 and spent the remainder of the war in U.K. waters, based primarily at Portsmouth. She returned home in May to begin tropicalization refit at Shelburne, but this was called off and the ship was paid off at Sydney on 16 Nov 1945. Placed in reserve at Shelburne, she was subsequently sold to Marine Industries Ltd., but re-acquired by the RCN and converted to a Prestonian class ocean escort. Re-commissioned 18 Mar 1955, she served as a training ship until paid off on 30 Nov 1966. Sold in Dec 1966 to Kennedy & Mitsui, Vancouver, BC. She was scrapped in Japan in 1967.

 


 

RCN Memories:     SUSSEXVALE's Missing Helm

 

Photos and Documents          Ship's company photos

 


 

Commanding Officers

 

LCdr Louis Raymond Pavillard, RCNR - 29 Nov 1944 - 16 Nov 1945

Cdr Richard Hugh Leir, RCN - 18 Mar 1955 - 25 Aug 1955

LCdr John Barclay Young, RCN - 26 Aug 1955 - 02 Jan 1957

LCdr Edward Pearce Shaw, RCN - 03 Jan 1957 - 23 Jun 1958

Cdr V.J. Murphy, RCN - 28 Nov 1958 - 26 Apr 1960

LCdr Henry Donovan Joy, RCN - 27 Apr 1960 - 17 May 1962

LCdr Anthony Norman Turner, RCN - 18 May 1962 - 24 Nov 1963

LCdr R.K. Niven, RCN - 15 Nov 1963 - 26 Jul 1964

LCdr Trevor Cole Shuckburgh, RCN - 27 Jul 1964 - 20 Jun 1965

LCdr Fred William Crickard, RCN - 21 Jun 1965 - 30 Nov 1966

 


 

     In memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice    

     Lest We Forget     

 

COLLINS, Ralph N.

 LS, 24238

died - 19 Jun 1961

 


 

Anderson, Joseph C.

Armour, Peter G. D.

Barrett-Lennard, Walter

Bell, James D.

Bemister, Herbert G.

Bernays, Max L.

Bradford, Sydney H.

Britt, Bruce D.

Broster, G. Arnold

Bugslag, John C.

Cale, K. Donald

Cathcart, Donald S.

Clackson, Donald R.

Clark, Donald S.

Colclough, Frederick J.

Colegrave, Bruce E.

Cooke, Ron

Crickard, Frederick W.

Czop, Robert M.

Donaldson, George

Erkkila, Reino L. J.

Fenn, Frank

Fenwick, Charles W.

Ferris, Leonard R.

Fisher, Brian J.

Fisher, Eric

Forrester, Charles M.

Fortier, Louis-P.

Fraser, Norman L.

Gorman, Andrew D.

Gould, Sidney C.

Gouldie, Gordon C.

Gore, Andrew E.

Grossman, Henry

Guy, Allan R.

Guy, Rex G.

Hamel, Doug

Harrison, Kenneth

Hawkey, Robert C.

Hawrysh, Frederick J.

Hodgkins, Frederick W.

Hutchings, Curwen J.

Jack, Andrew M.

Johnson, Edward R.

Johnston, Lloyd A.

Johnstone, William R.

Jones, Keray

Joy, Henry D.

Jupp, Robert H.

Kazmiruk, George D.

Lambert, Norman

Larone, Ronald T.

Leir, Richard H.

Lourme, Ernest P.

Lundy, John G.

Lysne, Jack M.

Mattice, Gerald B.

Merritt, Donald L.

Mumford, Victor H.

Murch, Bruce G.

Murphy, Vincent J.

Parsons Peter

Peressini, Luigi A.

Perkins, Edward J.

Phillips, Edward C.

Pike, Raymond

Porter, Henry A.

Pottinger, John W. C.

Rayment, Lloyd

Reiter, Karl H.

Roberts, Trevor J. F.

Robertson, Robert

Rostek, Arthur

Rowse, Arthur W.

Schuckburgh, Trevor C.

Seip, Harry E.

Silvester, Henry

Sinclair, David L.

Sommerville, Wilfred J.

Sophonow

Stanbrook, Wilfred T.

Steed, Roger G.

Stevens, Harold

Tierney, Patrick

Tudor, David T.

Turner, Anthony N.

Waters, T. Frank C.

Whyte, Robert A.

Wight, Clifford

Williams, William R.

Willment, Irving F. A.

Woychuk, Wilfred F.

Wright, Gordon S.

Wright, James E.

Yanow, Robert D.

Young, Gaston G.

Young, John B.

Zerbin, Helmut

 

 

 


 

Former Crew Members

 

Anderson, Ted, Signalman

 

Borthwick, James, Lt (S), RCNVR - 08 Jul 1945

 

Dobell, Jim

 

Duhamel, Alfe, AB.CV1

 

Farley, Norman, Stoker

 

Hughes, Cyril

McKee, Walter Albert, Lt, RCNVR - Jan 1945

 

Paul, Stewart, L/Coder, RCNVR

 

Stew, George E., Signalman - 1960

 

Sparrow, Ken, ER, 39776E, RCN

 

Theobalds, Arthur Charles, Paym/Lt, RCNVR - 25 Feb 1945

 

Trusler, John Edward, A/Lt, RCNVR - 27 Feb 1945

 

Wardell, Ken

 


 

Photos and Documents

 

HMCS SUSSEXVALE K683 with her wartime disruptive paint scheme

 

Courtesy of Wayne Egeland

Jacket patch for HMCS SUSSEXVALE - time frame unknown

 

From the collection of Harold Stevens

 

Courtesy of Rob Stevens

Article on HMCS Swansea performing sea trials after being re-commissioned

 

Halifax Mail-Star 28 Mar 1955

 

Research by / Courtesy of George Newbury

Helm stolen from HMCS SUSSEXVALE

 

Source: Victoria Daily Times, Saturday, April 27, 1963

 

Courtesy of Jim Dobell

 

Read the story behind this article - RCN Memories - SUSSEXVALE's Missing Helm

HMCS SUSSEXVALE 313 in 1964

 

Source: City of Vancouver Archives

 

Photographer: Walter E. Frost

HMCS SUSSEXVALE 313 in 1959

 

Source: City of Vancouver Archives

 

Photographer: Walter E. Frost

Alfe Duhamel sending flashing light on HMCS SUSSEXVALE at anchor off Mexico circa 1959-1960

 

Courtesy of Alfe Duhamel, C2SG, RCN / C.A.F.

HMCS SUSSEXVALE 313  - undated

 

DND / RCN photo

 



 

        

 

HMCS SUSSEXVALE 313

 

Courtesy of Wayne Egeland

 



 

 

 

GB-SXV-001

 

 

(GB-SXV-001) Sketch of HMCS SUSSEXVALE 313 by Edward Goodall

From the collection of Gordon A. Broster, RCN

Courtesy of Cathy Robinson

 



 

GW06

GW07

GW08

(GW06-GW07) Gordon Wright - photos believed to be taken on HMCS SUSSEXVALE

(GW08) Forth Canadian Escort Squadron Crossing the Line (Equator) Certificate - Issued to Gordon Wright, 24 Jan 1961 on HMCS SUSSEXVALE

From the collection of Gordon Wright, ABCK1, RCN

Courtesy of Jen Moinz


 

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