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HMCS Summerside (K 141)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 141 
Built byMorton Engineering and Dry Dock Co. (Quebec City, Quebec, Canada) 
Ordered23 Jan, 1940 
Laid down4 Oct, 1940 
Launched7 May, 1941 
Commissioned11 Sep, 1941 
End service6 Jul, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryFo'c's'le extended at the Saint John (New Brunswick, Canada) on 25 October 1943.

Took part in Operations Torch and Neptune.

Decommissioned 6 July 1945.
Scrapped in Canada in June 1946.  


Noteable events involving Summerside include:

29 Oct, 1942
HMCS Rosthern and HMCS Summerside together picks up survivors from the American tanker Pan New York that was torpedoed and damaged by the German submarine U-624 in the North Atlantic 550 miles west of Malin Head in position 54º58'N, 23º56'W. The corvettes sank the wrecked tanker with gunfire and depth charges.

18 Jan, 1945
HMCS Summerside (Lt. F.O. Plant, RCNVR) had her repairs completed at Halifax.


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