Allied Warships

HMCS Nanaimo (K 101)

Corvette of the Flower class

Navy	The Royal Canadian Navy
Type	Corvette
Class	Flower
Pennant	K 101
Built by	Yarrows Ltd. (Esquimalt, British Columbia, Canada)
Ordered	14 Feb 1940
Laid down	27 Apr 1940
Launched	28 Oct 1940
Commissioned	26 Apr 1941
End service	28 Sep 1945
History	HMCS Nanaimo never had her fo'c's'le extended. Decommissioned 28 September 1945. Became the dutch merchantile Rene W. Vinke in 1953. Broken up at Cape Town, South Africa in 1966.

Commands listed for HMCS Nanaimo (K 101)

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	Commander	From	To
1	H. C. C. Daubney, RCNR	26 Apr 1941	7 Oct 1941
2	T/Lt. Thomas James Bellas, RCNR	7 Oct 1941	20 Aug 1942
3	T/Lt. Ernest Usher Jones, RCNVR	21 Aug 1942	10 Oct 1943
4	T/Lt. Joseph Eric William Hastings, RCNR	11 Oct 1943	9 Oct 1944
5	T/Lt. Reginald Curren Eaton, RCNVR	10 Oct 1944	2 Mar 1945
6	T/Lt.Cdr. Walter Redford, RCNR	23 Mar 1945	28 Sep 1945

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Notable events involving Nanaimo include:

10 Jun 1942
HMCS Nanaimo (T/Lt. T.J. Bellas, RCNR) picks up 86 survivors from the British merchant Port Nicholson that was torpedoed and sunk by German U-boat U-87 northeast of Cape Cod in position 42°11'N, 69°25'W.

13 Mar 1943
HMS L 23 (Lt. A.H.B. Anderson, DSC, RNR) departed St. John's for Philadelphia. She was escorted by HMCS Nanaimo (T/Lt. E.U. Jones, RCNVR). (1)

21 Feb 1945
HMCS Nanaimo (T/Lt. R.C. Eaton, RCNVR) ended a refit at Esquimalt.