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Allied Warships

HMCS Timmins (K 223)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 223 
Built byYarrows Ltd. (Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada) 
Ordered 
Laid down14 Dec, 1940 
Launched26 Jun, 1941 
Commissioned10 Feb, 1942 
End service15 Jul, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryNamed after the town of Timmins, Ontario.

Fo'c's'le extended at Libverpool (Nova Scotia, Canada) on 16 October 1944.

Decommissioned 15 July 1945.
Became the merchantile Guayaquil in 1948. She was lost on 3 August 1960. 


Noteable events involving Timmins include:

21 Nov, 1942
HMCS Timmins (Lt. J.A. Brown, RCNR) and HMCS Minas (Lt. J.C. Barbour, RCNR) together pick up 42 survivors from the British merchant Empire Sailor south of Newfoundland in position 43º53'N, 55º12'W.


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