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HMCS Arrowhead (K 145)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 145 
Built byMarine Industries Ltd. (Sorel, Quebec, Canada) 
Ordered22 Jan, 1940 
Laid down11 Apr, 1940 
Launched8 Aug, 1940 
Commissioned22 Nov, 1940 
End service27 Jun, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryFo'c's'le extended at Baltimore (Maryland, U.S.A.) on 25 May 1944.

Decommissioned and returned to the Royal Navy on 27 June 1945.
Sold in May 1947.
Became the merchantile Southern Larkspur in 1948. Scapped at Odense, Denmark in November 1959.

Commanding Officers:
Lt. V. Torraville, RCN
21 November 1940 - 17 January 1941

Lt.Cdr. Edgar George Skinner, RCNR
18 January 1941 - 19 April 1943
Promoted to Cdr. on 1 July 1942
DSC awarded on 13 June 1942

Skr.Lt. Lester Alton Hickey, RCNR
20 April 1943 - 10 February 1944

Lt. W.P. Wickett, RCNVR
11 February 1944 - 4 March 1944

Lt. Roy Howard Sylvester, RCNVR
5 March 1944 - 15 April 1944

Skr.Lt. Lester Alton Hickey, RCNR
16 April 1944 - 21 October 1944

Lt. Roy Howard Sylvester, RCNVR
22 October 1944 - 27 June 1945 

Former nameHMS Arrowhead

Noteable events involving Arrowhead include:

9 Oct, 1942
HMCS Hepatica (Lt.Cdr. T. Gilmour, RCNR) and and HMCS Arrowhead (Cdr. E.G. Skinner, DSO, RCNR) together pick up 19 survivors from the Canadian merchant Carolus that was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of St.Lawrence near Bic Island in position 48º47'N, 68º10'W by the German submarine U-69.


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