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HMCS ARMENTIÈRES
Battle
Class Trawler
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HMCS ARMENTIÈRES - 09 Dec 1940
DND / RCN Photo
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Launched: 11
Aug 1917
Commissioned: 05
Jun 1918
Paid off: 28
Oct 1919
- transferred to Dept. of Fisheries
Returned
to RCN:
Re-commissioned:
05 May 1923
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Sunk: 02
Sep 1925
Re-floated:
26 Oct 1925
Re-commissioned: 1926
Paid off:
08 Feb 1946
Fate:
Lost somewhere off South American. Deleted from the ship's registry
in 1991.
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Commissioned from 05 Jun
1918 to 28 Oct 1919. After the war she was loaned to the
Fisheries Dept. Returned to the RCN, ARMENTIÈRES re-entered naval service
on 05 May 1923 only to be sunk in Pipestem Inlet, B.C., on 02 Sep 1925.
Re-floated on 26 Oct 1925, she was re-commissioned the following year
and continued in service, primarily as a training ship, but with
occasional intervals on fishery patrol. In the spring ARMENTIÈRES used to escort the fur seals en route to their breeding grounds in
the Pribilof Islands, to protect them from illegal hunting
procedures. From 1934 until the outbreak of the Second World War she
was the only one of her class still in naval service. She served as
an examination vessel at Prince Rupert throughout most of the war.
After the end of the war, she was paid off and sold, and entered mercantile
service becoming A.G. Garrish in 1947, later renamed Arctic Rover in 1958,
Laforce in 1962 and Polaris in 1973. In 1978 she was engaged in carry
tourists from St. Maarten to St. Barts. In 1980 she was engaged in the drug
trade. She was lost somewhere in South America.
Photos
and Documents Ship's
company photos
Commanding Officers
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Ch/Skpr John Baillies, RCN - 05
Jun 1918 - unk
Lt George Berkeley Fraser Barnes, RCN - 01 May 1923 - unk
Lt Colin Degge Donald, RCN - 09
Apr 1925 - unk
LCdr
Godfrey Musgrave Hibbard, RCN - 15 Oct 1929 - 30 Apr 1930
LCdr Henry Wickens Stephers
Soulsby, RCN - 22 May 1930 - unk
LCdr Harold Reed Tingley, RCN - 06
Jul 1933 - unk
LCdr Maurice Adrian
Wood, RCN - 29 Jan 1934 - unk
LCdr Henry Wickens Stephens
Soulsby, RCN - 15 Apr 1935 - unk
Lt T. MacDuff,
RCNR - 01 Sep 1939 - unk
A/LCdr Archibald Morrison
Henderson, RCNR - 17 Jun 1940 - unk
Lt Anthony Hubert Gleadow Storrs,
RCNR - 31 Mar 1941 - unk
Ch/Skpr James Edwin Moore, RCNR -
24 Jun 1941 - unk
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Ch/Skpr George Billard,
RCNR - 29 Jul 1941 - unk
Ch/Skpr Joseph Georges Armand
Grandmaison, RCNR -
20 Feb 1942 - unk
Ch/Skpr William Edward Eccles,
RCNR - 02 Mar 1942 - unk
Ch/Skpr J.D. McPhee,
RCNR - 14 Dec 1942 - unk
Skpr/Lt G.F. Cassidy,
RCNR - 20 Sep 1943 - unk
Skpr/Lt Harold Reginald Heslam
Stratford, RCNR - 24 Jun 1944 - unk
Skpr/Lt W.E. Eccles,
RCNR - 09 Dec 1944 - unk
Skpr/Lt Harold Reginald Heslam
Stratford, RCNR - dates unk
Skpr/Lt J. Craig,
RCNR - 07 Aug 1945 - unk |
In memory of those who have crossed the bar 
They shall not be
forgotten
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Akam,
Thomas
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Baillies, John
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Commanding Officer 05
Jun 1918 |
Barnes,
George Berkeley Fraser
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Commanding Officer
01 May 1923 |
Bernard, Pierre Y.
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Burton,
George R.
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Call, George
E.
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Cluff,
Charles T.
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Conway, Archibald H.
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Crisp,
Nelson W.
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Curry,
Walter
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Denny,
Thomas G.
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Donald, Colin D.
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Dunick, John
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Eames,
Howard C.
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Ethell, George
J.
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Ferguson,
William I.
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Freeman,
David H.
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Gagnon,
Amedee
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Gagnon,
William M.
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Geddes,
Frederick E.
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Grant,
Frank
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Hacker,
John W.
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Hancock,
Ralph G.
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Harrison,
Robert M.
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Hibbard,
Godfrey M.
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Hutton,
Jack
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Jewett, George S.
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Jones,
Lloyd I.
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Jordan, Russell
H.
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Kelly,
Fraser J.
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Kennedy, Archibald
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Latimer, Ernest G.
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Lawrence,
Thomas E.
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LeBlanc, L.
Anaclet
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Leggett,
Harry F.
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Lipscombe,
George
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MacDonald, Herbert
C.
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MacDonald,
John S.
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MacGillivray,
John
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McKay,
Graham A.
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Paige,
Leslie A. C.
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Partington,
Richard
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Price, John
R.
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Redford,
Walter
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Drafted to ARMENTIÈRES 05 Jun 1918 as
Mate, RNCVR
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Renfrew,
Robert
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Drafted to ARMENTIÈRES 05 Jun 1918 as
Art (E), RCN
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Robertson,
Theodore M.
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Rogers,
Harry A.
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Ross,
William G.
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Russ,
Frank A.
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Smith,
Herbert Elerton
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Drafted to ARMENTIÈRES 30 Jun
1918 as Mate, RNCVR
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Smith, Roy
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Spencer, Frederick
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Stearn,
Arthur D.
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Stone, Leonard S.
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Storrs,
Antony H. G.
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Van't Haaff, George
E.
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Watt, Ernest F. B.
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Watt, Thomas
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Webb,
Frederick A. H
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Whitehouse, Eric
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Wood, Warren F.
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Woodward,
Rodney T.
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Former Crew Members
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Grandmaison,
Joseph Georges Armand, Skpr, RCNR - 15 May 1942
Matte,
Ciliten Joseph, Ch/Skpr, RCNR - 09 Jun 1944
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Owen-Jones,
Bernard Glyndwr Killen, Skpr, RCNR - 19 Jun 1942
Pearo,
Lester Peter, Skpr/Lt, RCNR - 25 Apr 1945
Pressey,
Arthur Roddy (Bully), LCdr, RCN - 29 May 1927 |
Sweeney,
Edward Harold, Skpr, RCNR - 14 Jun 1941
Wilson,
Alexander, Skpr, RCNR - 14 Jun 1941 |
Photos and
Documents
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Article
on HMCS THIEPVAL, HMCS GIVENCHY, HMCS ARMENTIÈRES and HMCS STADACONA
transiting from Halifax to Esquimalt. THIEPVAL arrived safely in
Esquimalt, while ARMENTIÈRES and GIVENCHY had to escort / tow STADACONA to
San Francisco after she lost her rudder in a storm
The Daily Colonist, Victoria, BC, Saturday 24 May 1919
Courtesy of Dwight Farrell
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HMCS ARMENTIÈRES sinking in Pipestem Inlet,
B.C., on 02 Sep 1925
Courtesy of the CFB
Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum
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HMCS ARMENTIÈRES sinking in Pipestem Inlet,
B.C., on 02 Sep 1925
Courtesy of the CFB
Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum
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HMCS ARMENTIÈRES - 27 May 1933
Walter E. Frost Collection
City of Vancouver Archives
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HMCS ARMENTIÈRES
From the collection of LCdr Douglas J. Ford
Courtesy of Jay ford
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HMCS ARMENTIÈRES
From the collection of Jim Silvester
Courtesy of Jim Silvester
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HMCS ARMENTIÈRES in Esquimalt - 1937
From the collection of Jim Silvester
Courtesy of Jim Silvester
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HMCS ARMENTIÈRES in Campbell River, BC
From the collection of Jim Silvester
Courtesy of Jim Silvester
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