The first HMCS Brandon (K 149) was De-commissioned on June 22nd 1945,
6/22/2009 at 7:43 AM
and broken up in Hamilton Ontario the same year.
This ship was a “Flower Class Corvette (1939-1940)” that was commissioned in Quebec City on July 22nd 1941. The Ship builder was ‘The Davie Shipbuilding and Repair Co. Ltd.’ of Lauzon, Quebec. Her Keel was laid down on the 10th of August 1940, and she was launched on April 22nd 1941.
She was 205.1 feet in Length, 33.1 feet in Breadth, had Draught of 11.5 feet, and a Displacement of 950 Tonnes. She was armed with one 4-inch Gun, Lewis, and Machine Guns, two anti-submarine mortars, and two depth charge racks located at the stern.
Her top speed was 16 Knots and she arrived in Halifax on August 1st 1941.
Her personnel consisted of 6 Officers, and 79 Crew member5s.
Her first assignment was with the Newfoundland Command and on September 26th she left St. John’s for her first Convoy, SC 46. She served on ocean escort duty to and from Iceland until December when she was sent to the United Kingdom for three months to undertake repairs.
After three weeks of “work ups” at Tobermory she was deployed almost continuously on the “Newfie-Derry” run from the middle of March 1942 until September 1944.
From December 1942 she served with the Escort Group C4. In February 1943 she was assigned to helping Convoy HX 224, and the following month she was escorting convoys to and from Gibraltar.
In August 1943, she was docked at Grimsby, England for a three month “Re-fit”, and on the 4th of March 1944 she was docked in New York, N.Y. for a Foc’sle extension.
On February 5th 1945 she arrived back in St. John’s to join the Western Escort Force, in which she remained until the end of WW II. At this time she was of no further use to the Navy and was thus scrapped.
Source:
http://www.pbase.com/cjmax/image/59370168 http://www.ebrandon.ca/profile_blog.aspx?person_id=5983 http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/Mariners/2001-05/0989587186