Allied Warships

HMCS Petrolia (K 498)

Corvette of the Castle class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassCastle 
PennantK 498 
Built byHarland & Wolff Ltd. (Belfast, Northern Ireland) 
Ordered23 Jan 1943 
Laid down21 Jun 1943 
Launched24 Feb 1944 
Commissioned29 Jun 1944 
End service8 Mar 1946 
History

Decommissioned 8 March 1946.  

Former nameHMS Sherborne Castle

Commands listed for HMCS Petrolia (K 498)

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CommanderFromTo
1T/Lt. Peter Wildie Spragge, RCNVR< Jun 194412 Sep 1945
2T/Lt.Cdr. John James Hodgkinson, RCNR12 Sep 19458 Mar 1946

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Notable events involving Petrolia include:


17 Aug 1944
HMS Vitality (Lt. K.S. Renshaw, DSC, RNR) conducted exercises off Tobermory with HMS Fowey (A/Lt.Cdr. G.E. Newey, RNR) and HMCS Petrolia (T/Lt. P.W. Spragge, RCNVR). (1)

18 Aug 1944
HMS Vitality (Lt. K.S. Renshaw, DSC, RNR) conducted exercises off Tobermory with HMS Fowey (A/Lt.Cdr. G.E. Newey, RNR) and HMCS Petrolia (T/Lt. P.W. Spragge, RCNVR). (1)

19 Aug 1944
HMS Vitality (Lt. K.S. Renshaw, DSC, RNR) conducted exercises off Tobermory with HMCS Petrolia (T/Lt. P.W. Spragge, RCNVR). (1)

22 Nov 1944
HMS Virulent (Lt. S.J. Fovargue, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Larne with HMCS Petrolia (T/Lt. P.W. Spragge, RCNVR) and HMCS Wentworth (T/Lt.Cdr. R.J.C. Pringle, RCNVR). (2)

Media links


Corvettes of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1939-1945

MacPherson, Ken and Milner, Marc

Sources

  1. ADM 173/19420
  2. ADM 173/19411

ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.


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