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Allied Warships

HMCS Orillia (K 119)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 119 
Built byCollingwood Shipyards Ltd. (Collingwood, Ontario, Canada) 
Ordered1 Feb, 1940 
Laid down4 Mar, 1940 
Launched15 Sep, 1940 
Commissioned25 Nov, 1940 
End service2 Jul, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryFo'c's'le extended at Liverpool (Nova Scotia, Canada) on 3 March 1944. Decommissioned 2 July 1945.
Scrapped in Canada in January 1951. 

Noteable events involving Orillia include:

24 Jun, 1941
HMCS Orillia (T/Lt.Cdr. W.E.S. Briggs, RCNR) picks up 37 survivors from the British merchant Kinross that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-203 in the North Atlantic south-east of Cape Farewell in position 55º23'N, 38º49'W.

10 Sep, 1941
HMCS Orillia (T/Lt.Cdr. W.E.S. Briggs, RCNR) begins to tow the damaged British merchant Tachee to Iceland. The Tachee was torpedoed and damaged the previous day by the German submarine U-652 north-east of Cape Farewell, Greenland in position 61º15'N, 41º05'W.

19 Sep, 1941
HMCS Orillia (T/Lt.Cdr. W.E.S. Briggs, RCNR) picks up 39 survivors from the British merchant Baron Pentland that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-372 north-east of Cape Farewell in position 61º15'N, 41º05'W.


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