HMCS PATRICIAN

 

Thornycroft M-Class Destroyer

 

 

HMS PATRICIAN G56

Source: Imperial War Museum SP 1654

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Launched: 05 Jun 1916

Commissioned: 

Paid off: 1920

Transferred to RCN: 1920

Commissioned: 01 Nov 1920

Paid off: 1929

Fate: Sold in 1929 to be broken up

 

PATRICIAN and Patriot were commissioned in 1916,and served in the RN for the duration of the First World War. In 1920 PATRICIAN, PATRIOT, and the cruiser AURORA were offered to Canada as replacements for the decrepit NIOBE and RAINBOW. The three were commissioned at Devonport on 01 Nov 1920, and left for Canada a month later. When the naval budget was cut by a million dollars in 1922, the two destroyers became the only seagoing ships in the RCN. PATRICIAN was ordered that autumn to the west coast, where she was to spend the next five years training officers and men of the naval reserve. As perhaps the strangest assignment of her career, PATRICIAN was detailed in Nov 1924, to intercept a band of Nanaimo bank-robbers trying to reach the United States by motor launch.  PATRICIAN was sold for scrap in 1929 to a Seattle company to be broken up.

 

 

Photos and Documents          The Ship's Bell          Ship's Company Photos

 

 

Commanding Officers

 

Lt George Clarence Jones, RCN - 01 Nov 1920 - 02 Sep 1922

Lt C.T. Beard, RCN - 03 Sep 1922 - 31 Oct 1922

Lt J.E.W. Oland, RCN - 01 Nov 1922 - 30 Sep 1924

Lt W.J.R. Beech, RCN - 01 Oct 1924 - 14 Aug 1926

LCdr Ronald Ian Agnew, RCN - 15 Aug 1926 - 01 Jan 1928

 

 

     In memory of those who have crossed the bar    

They shall not be forgotten

 

 

 

Photos and Documents

 

HMCS Aurora, HMCS PATRICIAN, HMCS Patriot - open to the public

 

The Morning Chronicle, Halifax, 23 Dec 1920

 

Research by / Courtesy of George Newbury

The Royal Canadian Navy's interest in hydrofoil development goes back to the years just after the First World War. HMCS Patriot, a destroyer, is shown towing at 14 knots the HD.4, a hydrofoil craft designed by Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and F. W. (Casey) Baldwin, on the Bras d'Or lakes, near Baddeck, N.S. The HD·4 established a 60 knot speed record that stood for a generation.

 

Source: CROWSNEST Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 7, July 1964

HMCS PATRICIAN winning Gun Run Team - 29 May 1923, Victoria, BC

 

Credit/Courtesy of the CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum

HMCS PATRICIAN winning Gun Run Team - 29 May 1923, Victoria, BC

 

Credit/Courtesy of the CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum

HMCS PATRICIAN winning Gun Run Team - 29 May 1923, Victoria, BC

 

Credit/Courtesy of the CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum

HMCS PATRICIAN visits Chester NS

 

The Lunenburg Progress Enterprise, Wednesday, July 21, 1926, page five

 

 

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