Navy | The Royal Canadian Navy |
Type | Destroyer |
Class | G |
Pennant | H 31 |
Built by | Vickers Armstrong (Barrow-in-Furness, U.K.): Parsons |
Ordered | 5 Mar 1934 |
Laid down | 20 Sep 1934 |
Launched | 15 Aug 1935 |
Commissioned | 20 Mar 1943 |
End service | 31 Oct 1945 |
History | Transferred from the Royal Navy to the Royal Canadian Navy on 20 March 1943. |
Former name | HMS Griffin |
Commands listed for HMCS Ottawa (ii) (H 31)
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Commander | From | To | |
1 | Cdr. Hugh Francis Pullen, RCN | 20 Mar 1943 | 8 Jun 1943 |
2 | Cdr. Kenneth Frederick Adams, RCN | 9 Jun 1943 | 6 Jul 1943 |
3 | Cdr. Hugh Francis Pullen, RCN | 7 Jul 1943 | 18 May 1944 |
4 | T/Cdr. James Douglas Prentice, DSO, RCN | 19 May 1944 | 9 Sep 1944 |
5 | Lt. Eric Phillip Earnshaw, RCN | 10 Sep 1944 | 6 Oct 1944 |
6 | T/Lt.Cdr. Ronald James Herman, OBE, RCNVR | 7 Oct 1944 | 11 Oct 1944 |
7 | Lt. Noel Cogdon, RCN | 12 Oct 1944 | 4 Feb 1945 |
8 | A/Lt.Cdr. Patrick David Budge, DSC, RCN | 5 Feb 1945 | 14 Jul 1945 |
9 | A/Lt.Cdr. Geoffrey Huntley Davidson, RCN | 15 Jul 1945 | 31 Oct 1945 |
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Notable events involving Ottawa (ii) include:
9 Apr 1943
HMS H 33 (Lt. J.A. Spender, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Campbeltown with HMS L'Incomprise (Lt.Cdr.(Retd.) F.S. Deveson, RNR) and HMCS Ottawa (Cdr. H.F. Pullen, RCN). (1)
9 Jun 1943
HMS H 33 (Lt. J.A. Spender, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with HMCS Kootenay (A/Lt.Cdr. K.L. Dyer, DSC, RCN), HMCS Ottawa (Cdr. H.F. Pullen, OBE, RCN), HMS Dianthus (T/A/Lt.Cdr. N.F. Israel, RNR), HMCS Arvida (T/Lt. D.G. King, RCNVR), HMCS Rosthern (T/Lt. R.J.G. Johnson, RCNVR) and HMCS Wetaskiwin (T/A/Lt.Cdr. J.R. Kidston, RCNVR). (2)
15 Jul 1943
HMS H 32 (Lt. J.A.R. Troup, DSC, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with HMCS Kootenay (A/Lt.Cdr. K.L. Dyer, DSC, RCN), HMCS Ottawa (Cdr. H.F. Pullen, OBE, RCN) and HMS Egret. (3)
23 Aug 1943
HMS H 28 (Lt. E.C. Croswell, DSC, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with HMCS Ottawa (Cdr. H.F. Pullen, OBE, RCN), HMCS Kootenay (A/Lt.Cdr. K.L. Dyer, DSC, RCN) and HMCS Kitchener (T/A/Lt.Cdr. W. Evans, RCNVR). (4)
13 Nov 1943
HMS H 32 (Lt. K.S. Renshaw, DSC, RNR) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with HMCS Rosthern (T/A/Lt.Cdr. R.J.G. Johnson, RCNVR), HMCS Ottawa (Cdr. H.F. Pullen, OBE, RCN) and another vessel [unable to read the name in the log of HMS H 32]. (5)
12 Mar 1944
HMS H 34 (Lt. R.L. Jay, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Lough Foyle with HMS Cam (Lt.Cdr. J.P. Smythe, DSC, RD, RNR), HMS Sweetbriar (A/Lt.Cdr. W. Whitfield, DSC, RNR), HMCS Ottawa (Cdr. H.F. Pullen, OBE, RCN) and HMCS Rosthern (T/A/Lt.Cdr. R.J.G. Johnson, RCNVR). (6)
7 Jul 1944
German U-boat U-678 was sunk in the English Channel south-west of Brighton, in position 50°32'N, 00°23'W, by depth charges from the Canadian destroyers HMCS Ottawa, HMCS Kootenay and the British corvette HMS Statice.
18 Aug 1944
German U-boat U-621 was sunk in the Bay of Biscay near La Rochelle, in position 45°52'N, 02°36'W, by depth charges from the Canadian destroyers HMCS Ottawa (Cdr. J.D. Prentice, DSO, RCN), HMCS Kootenay (A/Lt.Cdr. W.H. Willson, RCN) and HMCS Chaudiere (A/Lt.Cdr. C.P. Nixon, RCN).
20 Aug 1944
The depth charge attacks made by the Canadian destroyers HMCS Ottawa (Cdr. J.D. Prentice, DSO, RCN), HMCS Kootenay (A/Lt.Cdr. W.H. Willson, RCN) and HMCS Chaudiere (A/Lt.Cdr. C.P. Nixon, RCN) in the Bay of Biscay west of Brest, in position 48°16'N, 05°33'W, were earlier credited with the destruction of the German U-boat U-984, but were carried out against a nonsub target.
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Sources
- ADM 173/17781
- ADM 173/17783
- ADM 173/17772
- ADM 173/17761
- ADM 173/17776
- ADM 173/18493
ADM numbers indicate documents at the British National Archives at Kew, London.
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