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HMCS VANCOUVER
F6A
Thornycroft
S-class Destroyer
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HMCS Vancouver F6A
Credit: Credit Ken
Macpherson / Naval Museum of Alberta
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Launched: 07
Dec 1918
Commissioned: 1919
Paid off: 1928
Transferred to RCN:
01 Mar 1928
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Commissioned:
01 Mar 1928
Paid off: 25
Nov 1936
Fate:
Sold for scrap in 1937
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Initially named Toreador,
Vancouver was originally commissioned in the RN in 1919. She
was leant to the RCN while replacements were being built for
Patrician and Patriot. She was transferred to the RCN on 01
Mar 1928. In May 1928, she arrived in Esquimalt to provide
reserve training. On 24 Jan 1932 HMCS SKEENA and HMCS
VANCOUVER provided protection to British assets and civilians in El
Salvador at the request of the British Consul in San Salvador
following the outbreak of a peasant uprising. A landing party was
briefly sent ashore at Acajutla, but the situation there improved
and the sailors saw no combat, although the two ships remained in
the area until the end of the month. On 05 Jan 1935, HMCS SKEENA and
HMCS VANCOUVER departed Esquimalt for exercises in the
Kingston, Jamaica area with HMCS CHAMPLAIN and HMCS SAGUENAY. She was paid off on
25 Nov 1936 and
sold for scrap in 1937.
Photos
and Documents Ship's
company photos
Commanding Officers
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Lt William Boyd Love
Holms, RCN - 13 Feb 1928 - 29 Feb 1928
LCdr Ronald Ian Agnew,
RCN - 01 Mar 1928 - 14 Aug 1928
LCdr Rupert Wainman Wood,
RCN - 15 Aug 1928 - 30 Apr 1930
LCdr Godfrey Musgrove Hibbard,
RCN - 01 May 1930 - 19 Jan 1931
LCdr Frederick Gordon Hart,
RCN - 20 Jan 1931 - 14 Dec 1932 |
LCdr L.J.M. Gauvreau,
RCN - 15 Dec 1932 - 19 Dec 1933
LCdr Frank Llewellyn Houghton,
RCN - 20 Dec 1933 - 30 Nov 1934
LCdr Colin Degge Donald,
RCN - 01 Dec 1934 - 14 May 1936
LCdr Edmont Rollo Mainguy,
RCN - 15 May 1936 - 25 Nov 1936 |
In memory of those who have crossed the bar 
They shall not be
forgotten
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Abbott,
Douglas
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Agnew, Ronald I.
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Akam,
Thomas
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Archer, Arthur E.
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Baxter,
Richard A.
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Bodger,
Richard R.
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Burgess,
Charles T.
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Call, George
E.
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Campbell,
William F.
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Carson,
Thomas H.
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Cole, Leslie
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Conway,
Archibald H. W.
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Corbin,
William H.
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Crisp,
Nelson W.
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Cue, Charles
P.
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Davy,
Arthur C. M.
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Déry,
Stanislas
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DeWolf,
Henry G.
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Donald, Colin D.
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Evans, Thomas
H.
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Fee,
Roland A. B.
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Finch-Noyes,
Edward
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Ford,
Malgwyn C.
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Gagnon,
Amedee
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Grivel,
George A.
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Groos,
Harold V. W.
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Grubb,
Frederic E.
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Hart,
Frederick G.
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Heiberg,
Kenneth G.
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Hewitt,
Arthur R.
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Hibbard, Godfrey M.
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Hibbard,
James C.
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Hiron, Bernard E.
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Holms,
William B. L.
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Houghton, Frank
L.
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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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Karagianis, John M.
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Latimer, Ernest G.
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Lay, Horatio N.
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Laycock, Albert
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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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MacFayden,
Edward
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Mainguy, Edmond
R.
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Manfield,
William A.
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Mann,
Clement C. W.
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Marcotte,
Joseph L. P.
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Marr, David
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Moore,
Arthur J.
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Myles, Ronald
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Paige, Leslie A. C.
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Porteous,
William W.
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Powell,
Joseph H.
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Price, John
R.
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Rutherford,
A. Lancelot
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Seabrook,
Archibald W.
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Shelley, Robert J.
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Smith, Roy
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Stone,
Leonard S.
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Tisdall,
Ernest P.
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Watt, Thomas
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Westcott,
James H.
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Whitehouse,
Eric
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Wood,
Rupert W.
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Wurtele, Alfred
C.
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Former Crew Members
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Bidwell,
Roger Edward Shelford, LCdr (T), RCN - 15 Apr 1931
Bragg,
Percival Dean, Lt, RCNVR - 28 Apr 1945
Budden,
Alfred Henry, Gnr (T), RN - 27 Jun 1931
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Guppy,
Samuel James Clark, Gnr (T), RCN - 09 Jul 1933
Lewis,
Bernard Arthur, Gnr (T), RN - 07 Apr 1935 |
Photos and
Documents
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LCdr Frank Houghton, commanding officer of HMCS
Vancouver, poses aboard his ship in the early 1930s.
Courtesy of Cluny Nichols |
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HMCS Vancouver F6A entering Willemstad Harbour,
Netherlands Antilles, 1934
In
1934, HMCS Skeena, HMCS
Saguenay, HMCS Champlain and HMCS Vancouver took part in Winter
exercises off South America.
From the collection of James A. Senior
Courtesy of Bob Senior |
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HMCS VANCOUVER (former HMS TOREADOR)
Collection of Mr. Donald M. McPherson, Corte
Madera, California
Copyright Owner: Naval History and Heritage
Command. Catalog # NH 75586 |
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HMCS VANCOUVER anchored off San Diego, California
- 05 Mar 1929
Copyright Owner: US National Archives. Catalog #:
80-G-416377 |
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