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HMCS REO II Z33
Minesweeping Auxiliary
Built at Meteghan, NS in 1931. A former rum-runner, REO II was chartered by the RCN on 30 Jul 1940, and commissioned on 23 Jan 1941, as an auxiliary minesweeper. She also served as an examination vessel and coil skid towing vessel. Declared surplus on 19 Oct 1945, she was paid off and in 1946 sold for mercantile purposes. In 1981 she was in the hands of the Lunenburg Marine Museum Society.
Commanding Officers
Mate Ellsworth Trask Coggins, RCNR - 16 Apr 1943 - unk
Ch/Skpr Rex Garfield Tidd, RCNR - 01 Jul 1945 - unk
They shall not be forgotten
Former Crew Members
Blouin, Josephat, Ch/Skpr, RCNR - 12 Apr 1944
Gordon, Arnold
Johnston, Murray Harland, Lt, RCNVR - 11 Feb 1942
HMCS REO II Courtesy of Hugh Muir
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In memory of those who have crossed the bar 
