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Allied Warships

HMCS Grandmere (J 258)

Minesweeper of the Bangor class


HMCS Grandmere (in the middle) with two sister ships.
Photograph taken by Charles James Sadler, RCNVR. First Class Stoker, Official number V-4963.

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeMinesweeper
ClassBangor 
PennantJ 258 
Built byCanadian Vickers Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) 
Ordered 
Laid down2 Jun, 1941 
Launched21 Aug, 1941 
Commissioned11 Dec, 1941 
End service23 Oct, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned 23 October 1945.
Sold into merchantile service in 1947 and renamed Elda. 

Noteable events involving Grandmere include:

14 Oct, 1942
HMCS Grandmere (Lt. J.S.C. Cuthbert, RCNR) picks up 101 survivors from the British railway ferry Caribou that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-69 in the Cabot Strait in position 47º19'N, 59º29'W.


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