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
 
History

Fo'c's'le extention at Liverpool (Nova Scotia, Canada) completed on 23 October 1944.

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

Commanding Officers:
T/Lt. George Stanley Hall, RCNR
30 April 1941 – 8 October 1943
Promoted to T/A/Lt.Cdr. 1 July 1942
Promoted to T/Lt.Cdr. on 1 January 1943

T/Lt. George Mitchell Hope, RCNVR
9 October 1943 – 20 August 1944

Lt. D.G.B. Hueston, RCNVR
21 August 1944 – 9 October 1944

T/Lt. Donald James Lawson, RCNVR
22-12-41 10 October 1944 – 17 July 1945

 

Commands listed for HMCS Trail (K 174)

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CommanderFromTo
1George Stanley Hall, RCNR30 Apr 19418 Oct 1943
2George Mitchell Hope, RCNVR9 Oct 194320 Aug 1944
3D. G. B. Hueston, RCNVR21 Aug 19449 Oct 1944
4Donald James Lawson, RCNVR10 Oct 194417 Jul 1945

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Noteable events involving Trail include:


27 Aug 1942
HMCS Trail (T/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 (T/A/Lt.Cdr. C.P. Balfry, RCNR) and HMCS Trail (T/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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