Corvette of the Flower class
| Navy | The Royal Canadian Navy |
| Type | Corvette |
| Class | Flower |
| Pennant | K 174 |
| Built by | Burrard Dry Dock Co. Ltd. (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) |
| Ordered | 14 Feb, 1940 |
| Laid down | 20 Jul, 1940 |
| Launched | 16 Oct, 1940 |
| Commissioned | 30 Apr, 1941 |
| End service | 17 Jul, 1945 |
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| History | Fo'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. |
