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Allied Warships

HMCS Woodstock (K 238)

Corvette of the Flower class

NavyThe Royal Canadian Navy
TypeCorvette
ClassFlower 
PennantK 238 
Built byCollingwood Shipyards Ltd. (Collingwood, Ontario, Canada) 
Ordered 
Laid down23 May, 1941 
Launched10 Dec, 1941 
Commissioned1 May, 1942 
End service27 Jan, 1945 
Loss position
 
HistoryDecommissioned 27 January 1945.
Became the merchantile Olympic Winner in 1951, then Otori Maru 20 in 1956 and Akitsu Maru in 1957.
Broken up at Etajima, Japan in 1975. 

Noteable events involving Woodstock include:

6 Jun, 1944
On D-Day HMCS Woodstock supported the American landings at Omaha Beach.


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