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Allied Warships

HMCS Niagara (I 57)

Destroyer of the Town class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassTown 
PennantI 57 
Built byFore River Shipbuilding Co. (Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) 
Ordered 
Laid down8 Jun, 1918 
Launched31 Aug, 1918 
Commissioned24 Sep, 1940 
End service15 Sep, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryAssigned torpedo training ship on 2 March 1944.

Decommissioned on 15 September 1945.
Sold for scrap on 13 January 1946.
Scrapped in 1947. 

Former nameUSS Thatcher (DD 162)

Noteable events involving Niagara include:

1 Apr, 1942
The British merchant Rio Blanco is torpedoed and sunk about 60 nautical miles east of Cape Hatteras in position 35º16'N, 74º18'W by the German submarine U-160. HMCS Niagara (Lt.Cdr. R.F. Harris, RCNR) later picks up 9 survivors.


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