Corvette of the Flower class
| Navy | The Royal Canadian Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 157 |
| Built by | Canadian Vickers Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) |
| Ordered | 20 Jan, 1940 |
| Laid down | 6 Jul, 1940 |
| Launched | 24 Oct, 1940 |
| Commissioned | 17 May, 1941 |
| End service | 20 Jun, 1945 |
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| History | Fo'c's'le extended at Pictou (Nova Scotia, Canada) 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. |
| Noteable events involving Dauphin include: 11 Feb, 1942
HMCS Dauphin (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 (Cdr. T. Taylor, RN) and the Canadian corvette HMCS Dauphin (Lt. R.A.S. MacNeil, RCNR) and landed at St.Johns, Newfoundland. 10 Mar, 1943
HMCS Dauphin (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. |
