| Navy | The Royal Canadian Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 170 |
| Built by | Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co. (Port Arthur, Ontario, Canada) |
| Ordered | 1 Feb 1940 |
| Laid down | 25 Oct 1940 |
| Launched | 5 May 1941 |
| Commissioned | 6 Sep 1941 |
| End service | 29 Jun 1945 |
| Loss position | |
| History | Fo'c's'le extention at Llondonderry (Northern Ireland) completed on 29 January 1944. Decommissioned 29 June 1945./br> Scrapped in Canada in November 1946. Commanding Officers: T/Lt. E.C. Smith, RCNVR T/Lt. W. Turner, RCNR T/Lt. E.C. Smith, RCNVR T/Lt. Kenneth Benjamin Culley, RCNVR T/Lt. Fred Royal Spindler, RCNVR |
Commands listed for HMCS Morden (K 170)
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| Commander | From | To | |
| 1 | John James Hodgkinson, RCNR | 16 Aug 1941 | 2 Jun 1943 |
| 2 | T/Lt. Erin Clauds Smith, RCNVR | 3 Jun 1943 | 14 Oct 1943 |
| 3 | W. Turner, RCNR | 15 Oct 1943 | 2 Jan 1944 |
| 4 | T/Lt. Erin Clauds Smith, RCNVR | 3 Jan 1944 | 21 May 1944 |
| 5 | Kenneth Benjamin Culley, RCNVR | 22 May 1944 | 18 Feb 1945 |
| 6 | Fred Royal Spindler, RCNVR | 19 Feb 1945 | 29 Jun 1945 |
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Noteable events involving Morden include:
1 Sep 1942
The German submarine U-756 was sunk in the North Atlantic about 440 nautical miles west-south-west of Cape Farewell in position 57º41'N, 31º30'W, by the Canadian corvette HMCS Morden (T/Lt. J.J. Hodgkinson, RCNR). (see map)
12 May 1943
HMCS Morden (T/Lt. J.J. Hodgkinson, RCNR) picks up 40 survivors from the Norwegian merchant Brand that was torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic in position 47º19'N, 24º41'W by the German submarine U-603.
23 Sep 1943
FFL Renoncule and HMCS Morden pick up survivors from the American merchant Steel Voyager that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-952 in the North Atlantic in position 53º18'N, 40º24'W.