Navy | The Royal Canadian Navy |
Type | Corvette |
Class | Flower |
Pennant | K 152 |
Built by | Marine Industries Ltd. (Sorel, Quebec, Canada) |
Ordered | 22 Jan 1940 |
Laid down | 5 Aug 1940 |
Launched | 25 Oct 1940 |
Commissioned | 5 Jun 1941 |
End service | 28 Jun 1945 |
History | Fo'c's'le extention at Liverpool (Nova Scotia, Canada) completed on 22 August 1944. Decommissioned 28 June 1945. |
Commands listed for HMCS Sherbrooke (K 152)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Lt.Cdr. (retired) Eric George Mackay Donald, RN | 5 Jun 1941 | 2 Jul 1942 |
2 | T/Lt. Joseph Ange Maurice Levesque, RCNR | 3 Jul 1942 | 29 Aug 1943 |
3 | T/Lt. Robert A. Jarvis, RCNVR | 30 Aug 1943 | 30 Jul 1944 |
4 | T/Lt. David Armstrong Binmore, RCNVR | 31 Jul 1944 | 28 Jun 1945 |
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Notable events involving Sherbrooke include:
15 Feb 1942
HMCS Sherbrooke (Lt.Cdr. E.G.M. Donald, RN) picks up 15 survivors from the Greek merchant Meropi that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-566 off Halifax in position 44°14'N, 62°41'W.
4 Sep 1942
HMS H 32 (Lt. J.R. Drummond, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with HMCS Amherst (T/Lt. H.G. Denyer, RCNR), HMCS St. Croix (A/Lt.Cdr. A.H. Dobson, DSC, RCNR), HMCS Ottawa (A/Lt.Cdr. C.A. Rutherford, RCN), HMCS Sherbrooke (T/Lt. J.A.M. Levesque, RCNR), HMCS Arvida (T/Lt. A.I. MacKay, RCNR) and HMCS Brandon (T/Lt. R.J.G. Johnson, RCNVR). (1)
10 Sep 1942
HMCS Sherbrooke (T/Lt J.A.M. Levesque, RCNR) picks up 39 survivors from the Norwegian tanker Sveve and 5 survivors from the Belgian merchant Elisabeth van Belgie that were torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-96 from the convoy ON-127 in the North Atlantic.
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Sources
- ADM 173/17217
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.
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