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HMCS NEW LISKEARD J397 / 168
Algerine
Class Minesweeper
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Post wartime badge |
HMCS NEW LISKEARD J397
DND / RCN Photo
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Battle honours and awards: Atlantic
1945
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Laid down: 07
Aug
1943
Launched: 14
Jan 1944
Commissioned: 21
Nov 1944
Paid
off: 1945
Re-commissioned:
09 Apr 1946
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Paid off: 22
Apr 1958
Re-designated:
CNAV NEW LISKEARD
Paid off:
01 May 1969
Fate: Broken up
in 1969
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Built at Port Arthur, Ont., shewas
commissioned there
on 21 Nov 1944. NEW LISKEARD arrived at Halifax on 15 Dec 1944
and proceeded to Bermuda for workups in Mar 1945. Upon her return
in Apr 1945 she was assigned to EG W-8 of Western Escort Force. When EG
W-8 was disbanded in Jun 1945, she was allocated to HMCS CORNWALLIS as a
training ship from Jul to Sep 1945. She then was placed in
maintenance reserve, first at Sydney and then at Halifax, until the
end of the year. Refitted at Halifax, she was re-commissioned on 09
Apr 1946, as a training ship for cadets. On 22 Apr 1958, she
was paid off for conversion to an oceanographic research vessel,
serving as such until 01 May 1969. Later that year she was taken to
Dartmouth Cove, N.S., for breaking up.
Photos and Documents
Commanding Officers
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Lt W.M. Grand,
RCNVR - 21 Nov 1944 - 15 Jun 1945
Lt Walter James Percy,
RCNR - 07 Jan 1946 - 21 Feb 1946
Lt Arthur Hatheway McDonald - 22 Feb
1946 - 30 Apr 1946
LCdr John Crispo Leckie Annesley,
RCN - 01 May 1946 - 15 Sep 1946
LCdr Breen Philip Young, MBE,
RCN - 19 Sep 1946 - 11 Nov 1947
Lt I.B.B. Morrow,
RCN - 12 Nov 1947 - 23 Jun 1949
Lt William Wyness MacColl,
RCN - 24 Jun 1949 - 14 Apr 1951 |
LCdr Clifford Edmund Coles,
RCN - 15 Apr 1951 - 14 Dec 1951
LCdr T.W. Wall,
RCN - 15 Dec 1951 - 02 Mar 1953
LCdr Robert Lambert
Ellis, RCN - 03 Mar 1953 - 06 Aug 1954
LCdr Maurice Aikins Turner,
RCN - 07 Aug 1954 - 03 Jun 1956
LCdr Gerald Robert Wood,
RCN - 04 June 1956 - 27 Aug 1957
LCdr C.H. LaRose,
RCN - 28 Aug 1957 - unk |
In memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice
Lest We Forget
MCCAIG,
Allan R.
Sto 1c,
RCNVR
died - 01 Dec
1944
In memory of those who have crossed the bar
They shall not be forgotten
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Atkinson,
William H. I.
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Annesley,
John C. L.
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Arnold,
Ralph E.
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Bate,
Charles D. S.
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Bennett,
Hedley
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Bond, Walter
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Bookbinder,
Leonard
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Clarke,
James M.
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Cocks,
Robert W. J.
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Coggins,
Ellsworth T.
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DeCosta, Wilfred
H.
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Dibben, Basil J.
C. D.
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Doherty, Raymond
E.
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Edwards,
Charles W.
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Gillis,
Harold G.
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Guy, Allan
R.
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Hardwick,
Gerald A.
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Harris,
Edward
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Hiltz,
John S.
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Jones,
Lloyd I.
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Kanis, Peter C.
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Labelle, John H.
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Laidler,
Robert A.
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Lloyd, William H.
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Manifold, C. Robin
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Manning,
Richard G.
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Marischuk,
Steve
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Markle,
Howard W.
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Marsh, Donald J.
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Maze,
Richard M.
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McMillin,
Andrew C.
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Millman,
Frederick A.
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Murray, John R.
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Pendergast,
James E.
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Perkins, Elwyn J. H.
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Phillips,
Edward C.
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Porter, Kenneth
M.
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Publicover,
Donald S.
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Randall,
Fred C.
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Rogers,
Thomas E.
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Sellars, Norman
E.
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Stone,
George A.
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Turner,
Maurice A.
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Whitby,
Joseph E.
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Young,
Breen P.
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Former Crew Members
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Bardel,
Calvin Oliver, Lt, RCNR - 22 Feb 1946
Birkenhead, Fred Willmot, SLt, RCNVR - 20 Feb 1945
Bricault, Fernand Joseph, SLt (E), RCNVR - 06 Mar 1945
Carling, John B.C., Lt, RCN, XO
Cocks,
Robert (Bob) William James (Boomer), Lt (P), RCN - 24 Jun 1948
Hoyte,
George Albert, Lt, RCN - 30 Jul 1947
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Jewer
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Ker, John
Sputham, A/SLt, RCN - 14 May 1948
Love, Alen Tannahill, Lt, RCN, XO - 14 Jul 1947
McCabe, John Joseph
McLay,
Alexander Boyd, LCdr (SB), RCNR - 24 Jun 1946
Walls,
Hugh (Hughey) Geoffrey John, Lt (P), RCN - 28 Apr 1948 |
Photos and Documents
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HMCS NEW LISKEARD, Port Arthur, Ontario - 20
Nov 1944
From the collection of Bernard Dunphy
Courtesy of Kerry Dunphy |
(JB05) HMCS
NEW LISKEARD, Port Arthur, ON - 20 Nov 1944 (JB06) CNAV NEW LISKEARD entering Ponta Delgada, Azores - 20 Aug 1964 (JB07)
Admiral's visit and inspection of CNAV NEW LISKEARD at Gibraltar - Sep
1964 (JB08) CNAV NEW LISKEARD alongside US Naval Base, Bermuda - Feb
1967 (JB09) CNAV NEW LISKEARD conducting VDS trials with submarine in
waters north of Bermuda c1965-66
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JB10 |
(JB10)
CNAV NEW LISKEARD RCN Centennial Naval Review
Courtesy of James
C. Bennett, LCdr, RCN(R)
Courtesy of Barry Bennett
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HMCS NEW LISKEARD 168
RCN Photo |
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HMCS NEW LISKEARD 168
RCN Photo # DNS-9126
Courtesy of the Comox RCAF Museum |
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Articles on the burial at sea of Cdr J.S.
Dalison, DSO, RN from HMCS NEW LISKEARD
Halifax Chronicle-Herald 12 Oct 1949 (top)
& 13 Oct 1949 (bottom) |
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