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HMCS Collingwood (K 180)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 180 
Built byCollingwood Shipyards Ltd. (Collingwood, Ontario, Canada) 
Ordered1 Feb, 1940 
Laid down2 Mar, 1940 
Launched27 Jul, 1940 
Commissioned19 Nov, 1940 
End service23 Jul, 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Collingwood was the first Canadian Flower class corvette to enter service.

Fo'c's'le extention at the New York Navy Yard (New York, New York, U.S.A.) completed on 14 December 1943.

Decommissioned on 23 July 1945. Broken up at Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1950.

Commanding Officers:
T/Lt. N.G.W. Bennett, RCNR
9 November 1940 – 16 April 1941

T/Lt. William Woods, RCNR
17 April 1941 – 9 April 1942
Promoted to T/A/Lt.Cdr. on 1 January 1942

Lt. David Walter Gross, RCN
10 December 1942 – 5 June 1943

T/Lt. Roderick John Cornell Pringle, RCNVR
6 June 1943 – 4 July 1944
Promoted to T/A/Lt.Cdr. on 1 July 1943
Promoted to T/Lt.Cdr. on 1 July 1944

T/Lt. H.R. Knight, RCNR
5 July 1944 – 2 May 1945

T/Lt. E.B. Pearce, RCNVR
3 May 1945 – 17 June 1945

Skipper Lt. J.D. Burnham, RCNR
18 June 1945 – 23 July 1945 


Noteable events involving Collingwood include:

27 Jun, 1941
HMCS Collingwood (T/Lt. W. Woods, RCNR) picks up 6 survivors from the British merchant Malaya II that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-564 in the north Atlantic east of Cape Farewell in position 59º56'N, 30º35'W.


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