Allied Warships

HMCS Hamilton (I 24)

Destroyer of the Town class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassTown 
PennantI 24 
Built byFore River Shipbuilding Co. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down17 Aug 1918 
Launched21 Dec 1918 
Commissioned6 Jul 1941 
End service8 Jun 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Transferred by the U.S.N. to the Royal Navy on 23 September 1940.
Collided with HMS Georgetown on 1 October 1940 while they were enroute to Britain.
The ship headed back to St.John's, Newfoundland and was further damaged by grounding. After repairs she was commissioned by the Royal Canadian Navy on 6 July 1941.

Decommissioned on 8 June 1945.
Sold to be broken up for scrap at Baltimore, U.S.A. on 2 August 1945.

Commanding Officers:
A/Lt.Cdr. Norman Vincent Clark, RCNR
25 June 1941 – 19 July 1943
Promoted to Lt.Cdr. on 11 May 1942
OBE 9 January 1943

T/Lt.Cdr. Douglas George Jeffrey, DSO, RD, RCNR
20 July 1943 – 18 January 1944

T/Cdr. Francis Poole, RD, RCNR
19 January 1944 – 23 November 1944

T/Skipper Lt. Joseph David Burnham, RCNR
24 November 1944 – 8 June 1945

 
Former nameHMS Hamilton

Commands listed for HMCS Hamilton (I 24)

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CommanderFromTo
1A/Lt.Cdr. Norman Vincent Clark, RCNR25 Jun 194119 Jul 1943
2T/Lt.Cdr. Douglas George Jeffrey, DSO, RCNR20 Jul 194318 Jan 1944
3Francis Poole, RCNR19 Jan 194423 Nov 1944
4Skr.Lt. Joseph David Burnham, RCNR24 Nov 19448 Jun 1945

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Noteable events involving Hamilton include:


3 Aug 1942
The British merchant Lochkatrine is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-552 east of Cape Race in position 45º52'N, 46º44'W. The Canadian destroyer HMCS Hamilton (Lt.Cdr. N.V. Clark, RCNR) and the Canadian corvette HMCS Agassiz (A/Lt.Cdr. B.D.L. Johnson, RCNR) together pick up 81 survivors.

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