Allied Warships

HMCS Dauphin (K 157)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 157 
Built byCanadian Vickers Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) 
Ordered20 Jan 1940 
Laid down6 Jul 1940 
Launched24 Oct 1940 
Commissioned17 May 1941 
End service20 Jun 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Fo'c's'le extention at Pictou (Nova Scotia, Canada) completed on 5 September 1943.

Decommissioned 20 June 1945.
Became the Honduran merchantile Cortes in 1949.
Sold and became Ecuadorean San Antonio from 1955 untill 1988.

Commanding Officers:
T/Lt. Robert Aubern Stuart MacNeil, RCNR
14 May 1941 – 17 January 1943
Promoted to T/Lt.Cdr. on 1 January 1943

T/Lt. Matthew Howard Wallace, RCNR
18 January 1943 – 10 October 1944
Promoted to T/A/Lt.Cdr. on 1 July 1944

T/Lt. E.R. O’Kelly, RCNVR
11 October 1944 – 20 June 1945

 

Commands listed for HMCS Dauphin (K 157)

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CommanderFromTo
1T/Lt. Robert Aubern Stuart MacNeil, RCNR14 May 194117 Jan 1943
2T/Lt. Matthew Howard Wallace, RCNR18 Jan 194310 Oct 1944
3E. R. O'Kelly, RCNVR11 Oct 194420 Jun 1945

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Noteable events involving Dauphin include:


11 Feb 1942
HMCS Dauphin (T/Lt. R.A.S. MacNeil, RCNR) picks up 30 survivors from the Norwegian merchant Heina that was torpedoed and sunk south of Iceland in position 56º10'N, 21º07'W by the German merchant U-136.

26 Jul 1942
At 07.57 hours on 26 July 1942 the German submarine U-607 attacked convoy ON-113 about 300 nautical miles east of Cape Race and observed two hits on a freighter and heard one detonation further away. At 08.11 hours the same day the German submarine U-704 attacked the same convoy and saw one detonation. It seems that both U-boats had hit the British merchant Empire Rainbow. The master, 38 crew members and eight gunners were picked up by the British destroyer HMS Burnham (A/Cdr. T. Taylor, RN) and the Canadian corvette HMCS Dauphin (T/Lt. R.A.S. MacNeil, RCNR) and landed at St.Johns, Newfoundland.

10 Mar 1943
HMCS Dauphin (T/Lt. M.H. Wallace, RCNR) picks up 3 survivors from the British merchant Nailsea Court that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-229 south of Reykjavik, Iceland in position 58º45'N, 21º57'W.

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