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Allied Warships

HMCS Camrose (K 154)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 154 
Built byMarine Industries Ltd. (Sorel, Quebec, Canada) 
Ordered22 Jan, 1940 
Laid down17 Sep, 1940 
Launched16 Nov, 1940 
Commissioned30 Jun, 1941 
End service22 Jul, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryFo'c's'le extended at Pictou (Nova Scotia, Canada) on 15 october 1943.

Took part in operations Torch and Neptune.

Decommissioned 22 July 1945.
Scrapped in Canada. 


Noteable events involving Camrose include:

7 Feb, 1943
HMCS Camrose (Lt L.R. Pavillard, RCNVR) picks up 72 survivors from the British merchant Empire Banner that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-77 west of Algiers in position 36º48'N, 01º32'E.

HMCS Camrose also picks up 59 survivors from the British merchant Empire Webster that was also torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-77 west of Algiers in position 36º47'N, 01º37'E.

12 Apr, 1943
The Canadian destroyer HMCS St. Croix (A/Lt.Cdr. A.H. Dobson, DSC, RCNR) and the Canadian corvette HMCS Camrose (Lt L.R. Pavillard, RCNVR) together pick up 28 survivors from the Norwegian merchant Ingerfire that was torpedoed and sunk the previous day about 400 nautical miles east of Newfoundland, Canada in position 51º29'N, 42º59'W.

8 Jan, 1944
The German submarine U-757 was sunk in the North Atlantic south-west of Iceland, in position 50º33'N, 18º03'W, by depth charges from the British frigate HMS Bayntun (Lt.Cdr. L.P. Bourke, RNZNR) and the Canadian corvette HMCS Camrose (A/T/Lt.Cdr. L.R. Pavillard, RCNR). (see map)


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