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HMCS
VICTORIAVILLE K684 / 320
River
Class / Prestonian Class Frigate
HMCS GRANBY 180 (1966)
Diving
Tender
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HMCS VICTORIAVILLE
Post wartime badge |
HMCS VICTORIAVILLE K684
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HMCS GRANBY
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Laid down: 01
Feb
1943
Launched: 23
Jun 1944
Commissioned: 11
Nov 1944
Paid off: 17
Nov 1945
Re-commissioned: 25
Sep 1959
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Re-named / Reclassified: 21
Dec 1966
Paid off: 31
Dec 1973
Fate: Sold for scrap in 1974
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Commissioned on 11 Nov 1944, at Quebec
City, she arrived at Halifax on 03 Dec 1944 and late that month
proceeded to Bermuda to work up. In Feb 1945, she was assigned
to EG C-9, leaving Halifax on 27 Feb 1945 to join convoy SC.168 for
her passage to Londonderry, where the group was based. VICTORIAVILLE
spent the balance of the war on North Atlantic convoy duty. She left
Barry, Wales, on 02 May 1945 to pick up convoy ON.300 on her way home to
Canada, and on 12 May 1945 escorted the surrendered U 190 into Bay Bulls,
Nfld. She began tropicalization refit at Saint John, N.B., on 24 May
1945, but work was stopped on 20 Aug 1945, and on 17 Nov 1945 the ship
was paid off at Sydney and laid up at Shelburne. Subsequently sold
to Marine Industries Ltd., she was re-acquired by the RCN and
re-commissioned on 25 Sep 1959, following conversion to a
Prestonian class ocean escort. On 21 Dec 1966, she assumed the
name and duties of the retiring diving tender Granby, but was paid
off 31 Dec 1973, and sold for scrap the following year.
RCN Memories:
My
Time On The Vicky
Photos
and Documents Ship's
company photos The
Ship's Bell History
of HMCS VICTORIAVILLE
The
capture of U-190's Enigma machine by HMCS THORLOCK and HMCS VICTORIAVILLE
Commanding Officers - HMCS
VICTORIAVILLE
A/LCdr Lester Alton Hickey,
MBE, RCNR
- 11 Nov 1944 - 17 Nov 1945
LCdr G.B. Wither,
RCN - 25 Sep 1959 - 04 May 1961
LCdr William P.
Rikely,
RCN - 05 May 19 61 - 10 Mar 1963
LCdr A.J. Norman,
RCN - 12 Dec 1964 - 08 Jan 1965
Commanding Officers - HMCS Granby 180
LCdr E.A. Makin,
RCN - 21 Dec 1966 - unk
In memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice
Lest We Forget
In memory of those who have crossed the bar
They shall not be
forgotten
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Benjamin,
Gordon
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Benson,
George F. A.
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Bertuzzi,
Peo
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Bockus,
Donald R.
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Bourgie,
Marcel
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Boyd,
Robert E.
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Brown,
Kenneth F.
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Burbidge,
Frederick S. |
Carnahan,
George B.
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Christie,
Robert W. |
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Curts,
Alexander
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Dohan,
John C.
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Dyson, John
W. |
Farrell,
Laurence P. |
Fenn, Frank |
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Ferroni,
Armand
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Gerrior,
Marshall J.
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Graham,
Donald V. |
Hamm,
Charles F. |
Hatherley,
Peter |
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Hickey,
Lester A.
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Hyatt,
Randall E.
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Johnson,
James R.
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Kidd,
Richard W. |
LeMoine,
Robert E. E. |
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MacEachern,
Allister J.
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MacMillan,
Hugh D.
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MacNeil,
Hugh M. D.
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Malin,
Richard R.G.
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Mastronardi,
Edward J.
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McInnes, D.
Glenson
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Morison,
Allen I.
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Muir, John
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Munroe,
Frank C.
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Myers,
Alexander J.
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Nichol, John
L.
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Nickerson,
Augustus
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Paradis,
Clement
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Perkins,
J. David
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Power,
John K.
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Rikely,
William P.
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Ross, James
D.
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Oxholm,
Bendt A. O.
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Ruckle,
William G.
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Russell,
Harold B. A.
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Stanger, E.
T.
Peter
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Stegen,
James W.
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Stone,
George A.
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Stone,
Robert P.
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Swim, Minard
G.
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Turner,
Edward J.
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Vallillee,
Ronald R.
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Vermunt,
Charles E.
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Walsh,
Gerald F.
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Walsh,
Michael
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Wilwand,
Robert E.
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Former Crew Members
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Ashton,
Cliff J.
Cleough,
Doug B., OS.BN, 35285-H, RCN - Sep 1959 - May 1961 
Dean,
William Patterson, Lt (E), RCNVR - 08 Apr 1945
Graham, Donald Vye, Surg Lt, RCNVR - 21 Feb 1945
Hopkins, Ted (HMCS GRANBY)
Hyatt, Randall Everett - WW2
James, Richard Spencer, A/Lt, RCNVR - 04 Jun 1945
Kimber, Norman, AB.WU, RCN - 1961-1962
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McDonald,
Bob
Metcalfe, Harold Roy (Hal), AB, V75909, RCNVR - HMCS VICTORIAVILLE during
Second World War
Pearson,
Don
Pittendrigh, Jim, Signalman -
1962
Power,
George (HMCS GRANBY)
Reid,
Andrew, Stoker - HMCS VICTORIAVILLE during Second World War
Reid,
John, AB.RM1 - 1963 - 1965
Winterburn,
Nelson, AB.VS1 - 09 Oct 1961 - 19 Sep 1963
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Photos
and Documents
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HMCS VICTORIAVILLE K684 conducting a stern
fueling
From the collection of Joseph Edward Turner
Courtesy of Adam Gaines |
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HMCS VICTORIAVILLE alongside .....
From the collection of Robert Macklem
Courtesy of Bob Macklem
Webmaster's Note: Robert Macklem served
in Chilliwack, St Boniface and Penetang - this photo could have been
taken from any of those 3 ships. |
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Believed to be members of the boarding party of
U-190 from HMCS VICTORIAVILLE
From the collection of Douglas Glendon McInnes
Courtesy of Lorna Tamura
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HMCS VICTORIAVILLE K320 - undated
DND / RCN photo |
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Roland Plante (HMCS DONNACONA) on his Ship's
Team Diver course, summer 1972 on HMCS GRANBY 180 (former VICTORIAVILLE
320)
Courtesy of Roland Plante |
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Roland Plante (HMCS DONNACONA) with HMCS GRANBY
180 (former VICTORIAVILLE 320) in the background
Courtesy of Roland Plante |
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HMCS GRANBY 180 (former VICTORIAVILLE 320)
at French Cable Wharf, Dartmouth, NS - late 1960s early 1970s
Courtesy of Dan Delong |
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PS01 |
PS02 |
(PS01)
HMCS VICTORIAVILLE k684 passing under the Reversing Falls bridge, Saint
John, NB (PS02) German U-boat U-190 flying the black flag of
surrender. Photo taken from HMCS VICTORIAVILLE K684 From
the collection of E.T. Peter Stanger, Lt,
RCNVR Courtesy
of Maurice Eldridge
(RS10-RS14) Sailors on HMCS VICTORIAVILLE K684
(RS10) Marcel Bourgie, 2nd front
right (RS14) Marcel Bourgie - top row
From the collection of AB
Radar III Robert Stone, RCNVR
Courtesy of Julia Payne
Post
Second World War
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HMCS VICTORIAVILLE 320
RCN Photo |
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Roland Plante (HMCS DONNACONA) on his Ship's
Team Diver course, summer 1972 on HMCS GRANBY 180 (former VICTORIAVILLE
320)
Courtesy of Roland Plante |
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Roland Plante (HMCS DONNACONA) with HMCS GRANBY
180 (former VICTORIAVILLE 320) in the background
Courtesy of Roland Plante |
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HMCS GRANBY 180 (former VICTORIAVILLE 320)
at French Cable Wharf, Dartmouth, NS - late 1960s early 1970s
Courtesy of Dan Delong |
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