Allied Warships

HMCS Restigouche (H 00)

Destroyer of the C class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeDestroyer
ClassC 
PennantH 00 
Built byPortsmouth Dockyard (Portsmouth, U.K.): Hawthorn Leslie & Co. (Hebburn-on-Tyne, U.K.) 
Ordered13 Feb 1930 
Laid down12 Sep 1930 
Launched30 Sep 1931 
Commissioned15 Jun 1938 
End service6 Oct 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Decommissioned on 6 October 1945.
Sold to be broken up for scrap on 9 November 1945.

 
Former nameHMS Comet

Commands listed for HMCS Restigouche (H 00)

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CommanderFromTo
1Lt.Cdr. William Boyd Love Holms, RCN15 Jun 193825 Dec 1939
2Lt.Cdr. Horatio Nelson Lay, RCN26 Dec 193923 Jun 1941
3Lt. Desmond William Piers, RCN24 Jun 19415 Jun 1943
4A/Lt.Cdr. David Walter Gross, RCN6 Jun 19433 Dec 1944
5Lt.Cdr. Philip Edwin Haddon, RCN4 Dec 194415 Apr 1945
6T/Lt.Cdr. Ronald James Herman, OBE, RCNVR16 Apr 19456 Oct 1945

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