Navy | The Royal Canadian Navy |
Type | Frigate |
Class | River |
Pennant | K 677 |
Built by | Canadian Vickers Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) |
Ordered | 1 Feb 1943 |
Laid down | 7 Jan 1944 |
Launched | 15 Apr 1944 |
Commissioned | 25 Aug 1944 |
End service | 17 Nov 1945 |
History | Decommissioned 17 November 1945. |
Commands listed for HMCS Royal Mount (K 677)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | T/Lt.Cdr. James Sinclair Davis, RCNVR | 25 Aug 1944 | 10 May 1945 |
2 | T/Lt. John Hugh Dunne, RCNVR | 11 May 1945 | 8 Aug 1945 |
3 | T/Lt.Cdr. James Sinclair Davis, RCNVR | 9 Aug 1945 | 17 Nov 1945 |
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Notable events involving Royal Mount include:
18 Dec 1944
HMS Vengeful (Lt. A.S. Melville-Ross, DSC, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Larne with HMS Louis (A/Lt.Cdr. R. Johnston, RNR), HMS Inglis (T/A/Lt.Cdr. A.P. Cobbold, RNVR), HMCS Hallowell (T/A/Lt.Cdr. Richard Heany Angus, RCNVR), HMCS Royal Mount (T/Lt.Cdr. J.S. Davis, RCNVR) and HMCS Chambly (T/Lt. S.D. Taylor, RCNR). (1)
16 Jan 1945
Around 1430A/16, HrMs Tjerk Hiddes (Lt.Cdr. N.W. Sluijter, RNethN) departed Falmouth escorting the transports Eros (British, 5888 GRT, built 1936) and Indochinois (British, 6966 GRT, built 1939).
Later the frigate HMCS Royal Mount (T/Lt.Cdr. J.S. Davis, RCNVR) and the corvettes HMCS Arnprior (T/Lt. S.D. Thom, DSC, RCNVR) and HMS Fennel (Lt.Cdr. K.L. Johnson, RCNVR) also joined.
The transports arrived at Liverpool on 18 January 1945.
HrMs Tjerk Hiddes continued on to the Clyde arriving there around 1130A/18.
The Canadian ships arrived at Londonderry on the 18th. (2)
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Sources
- ADM 173/19365
- File 2.12.03.2101 (Dutch Archives, The Hague, Netherlands)
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.
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