Allied Warships

HMCS Bittersweet (K 182)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 182 
Built byMarine Industries Ltd. (Sorel, Quebec, Canada) 
Ordered22 Jan 1940 
Laid down17 Apr 1940 
Launched12 Sep 1940 
Commissioned23 Jan 1941 
End service22 Jun 1945 
Loss position
 
History

Fo'c's'le extention at Baltimore (Maryland, U.S.A.) completed on 9 November 1943.

Decommissioned on and returned to the Royal Navy on 22 June 1945.
Scrapped in November 1950.

 
Former nameHMS Bittersweet

Commands listed for HMCS Bittersweet (K 182)

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CommanderFromTo
1A/Lt.Cdr. John Andrew Woods, RCNR23 Jan 194130 Nov 1942
2T/Lt. Frederick Bancroft Brooks-Hill, RCNVR1 Dec 19429 Jul 1944
3T/Lt. Frederick Wilson Bogardus, RCNVR10 Jul 19447 Dec 1944
4Skr.Lt. Frank Chalmers Smith, RCNR17 Dec 194422 Jun 1945

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Noteable events involving Bittersweet include:


2 Nov 1941
The British merchant Larpool is torpedoed and sunk about 250 nautical miles east-south-east of Cape Race by the German submarine U-208. The Canadian corvette corvette HMCS Bittersweet (A/Lt.Cdr. J.A. Woods, RCNR) later picks up 11 survivors.

10 Feb 1945
HMCS Bittersweet (Skr./Lt. F.C. Smith, RCNR) completed a refit at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Corvettes of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1939-1945

MacPherson, Ken and Milner, Marc

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