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HMCS LADY EVELYN
Auxiliary Patrol Ship
Built by Tranmere, U.K, for a Blackpool firm and originally named Deerhound, she was acquired and renamed by the Postmaster-General's department in 1907. LADY EVELYN's new function was to meet transatlantic mail steamers in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and take off the mail for transfer to trains. She was commissioned in the RCN as a patrol vessel from Jun 1917 to 1919, and survived in commercial service on the west coast until shortly before the Second World War. Her armament was 1-12pdr gun. The Howe Sound Navigation Co. brought the screw steamer LADY EVELYN Evelyn a former Canadian mail packet on the St. Lawrence, to Vancouver in 1921 for operation with Brittania. In 1923 she was bought by the Union Steamship Company of British Columbia and remained with them until 1936, when she was scrapped.
Commanding Officers
Lt Clement Barkhouse, RNCVR - 01 May 1918 - unk
They shall not be forgotten
Photos and Documents
HMCS LADY EVELYN
In this photograph, likely taken from HMCS Canada on the day following the Halifax Explosion, HMCS LADY EVELYN (centre) returns to port George Metcalf Archival Collection CWM 20080041-028
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In memory of those who have crossed the bar 
