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Allied Warships

HMCS Trail (K 174)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 174 
Built byBurrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd. (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) 
Ordered14 Feb, 1940 
Laid down20 Jul, 1940 
Launched16 Oct, 1940 
Commissioned30 Apr, 1941 
End service17 Jul, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryFo'c's'le extended at Liverpool (Nova Scotia, Canada) on 23 October 1944.

Decommissioned 17 July 1945.
Scrapped in Canada in August 1950. 


Noteable events involving Trail include:

27 Aug, 1942
HMCS Trail (A/Lt.Cdr. G.S. Hall, RCNR) picks up survivors from the American passenger ship Chatham that was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-517 in the Belle Isle Strait in position 51º53'N, 55º48'W.

3 Sep, 1942
HMCS Shawinigan (A/Lt.Cdr. C.P. Balfry, RCNR) and HMCS Trail (A/Lt.Cdr. G.S. Hall, RCNR) together pick up 17 survivors from the Canadian merchant Donald Stewart that was torpedoed and sunk north-east of Cape Whittle in the Gulf of St.Lawrence in position 50º32'N, 58º46'W by the German submarine U-517.


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