GLENDON W39 / WTB506

 

Wood Hulled Type - 1943

 

Glen Class Tugboat

 


 

Tug GLENDON 

Source: A History of the West Coast Canadian Forces Auxiliary Fleet

 

Launched: 23 May 1945

Entered in to service: 25 May 1945

Re-designated: 26 Mar 1946 as CNAV

Re-commissioned: 12 Dec 1946

Removed from service: 13 Jan 1964

Fate: Sold on 31 Mar 1964. Still in use as of 2008.

 

GLENDON operated out of Esquimalt until she was removed from service and sold in 1964. On 26 Mar 1946, GLENDON was paid off from the RCN and transferred to the Auxiliary fleet. However, on 12 Dec 1946, GLENDON was re-commissioned temporarily and manned by naval personnel "to provide adequate facilities for manoeuvring HMCS WARRIOR."  By the early 1960, as designs were considered for the new Glen tugs, GLENDON was assigned as a tender to base operations at HMCS NADEN. Declared surplus on 13 Jan 1964, she was sold on 31 Mar 1964 to North Arm Transportation Ltd., and renamed North Arm Highlander. Used as a towboat, she was later resold, restored and renamed Golden Explorer. She was still on the Transport Canada registers in 2008.

 


 

Commanding Officers

 

Skpr/Lt Robert Hunter, RCNR - 14 May 1945 - unk

 


 

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

 

 


 

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(GC02) Tug GLENDON

(GC03) Crew of the GLENDON - Rear L-R: Sparks, Swain, Cookie, Tubbie;  front L-R: Chief, George Collison

(GC04) Crew of the GLENDON - L-R: George Collison, Tubby, Cookie

(GC05) Crew of the GLENDON - L-R: Tubby, Tony, Joe, Lou

(GC06) Unknown Petty Officer on the GLENDON

 

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(GC07) Tony Kalichuck "Swain"

(GC08) Ted Dalton by the winch on the GLENDON

(GC09) Tubby Buchanan wearing an officer's uniform onboard the GLENDON

(GC10) Unknown sailor wearing an officer's uniform onboard the GLENDON

(GC11) Dunc Rew (left) and Lou Broten onboard the GLENDON

 

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(GC12-GC13) Queen Charlotte Sound "and it isn't rough yet"

(GC14) HMCS WOLF being assisted alongside by the tug GLENDON (not visibly in photo) and smaller yard tug

(GC15) Minesweepers nested in Esquimalt.  HMCS QUATSINO J152 outboard ship on the left

 

From the collection of L/Stoker George Collison, RCNVR

 

Courtesy of Ken Collison

 


 

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