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Allied Warships

HMCS Barrie (K 138)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 138 
Built byCollingwood Shipyards Ltd. (Collingwood, Ontario, Canada) 
Ordered1 Feb, 1940 
Laid down4 Apr, 1940 
Launched23 Nov, 1940 
Commissioned12 May, 1941 
End service26 Jun, 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Fo'c's'le extention at Liverpool (Nova Scotia, Canada) completed on 17 April 1944.

Decomissioned on 26 June 1945.
Became the merchantile Gasestado in 1947 and the Argentinian Capitan Canepa from 1957 until 1972.

Commanding Officers:
T/Lt. R.M. Mosher, RCNR
12 May 1941 – 9 January 1942

Ch./Skr. George Norval Downey, RCNR
10 January 1942 – 28 March 1942

T/Lt. R.M. Mosher, RCNR
29 March 1942 – 13 March 1943

T/Lt. H.O. Magill, RCNVR
14 March 1943 – 8 October 1943

T/Lt. Douglas Rannie Watson, RCNR
9 October 1943 – 18 March 1944

T/Lt. H.O. Magill, RCNVR
19 March 1944 – 15 June 1944

T/Lt. W.D. Stokvis, RCNVR
16 June 1944 – 26 June 1945 


Noteable events involving Barrie include:

9 Feb, 1942
The British merchant Empire Fusilier is torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-85 southeast of St.Johns, Newfoundland, Canada in position 44º45'N, 47º25'W. HMCS Barrie (Chief Skipper G.N. Downey, RCNR) later picks up 38 survivors.

3 Sep, 1944
The British merchant Livingston is torpedoed and sunk northeast of Louisburg, Nova Scotia, Canada in position 46º15'N, 58º05'W by the German submarine U-541. The Canadian corvette HMCS Barrie (T/Lt. W.D. Stokvis) later picks up 14 survivors.


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