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HMS Orangeville
Unknown, 1944, Reproduction
HMS Orangeville
HMS Orangeville
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36345
Title
Page from Leith Miscellany, volume IV, HMS Orangeville
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Unknown
Date
1944
Type
Reproduction
HMS Orangeville was a Castle Class corvette built by Henry Robb, shipbuilders, Leith for the Admiralty and transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy. She was launched by Lady Darling on the 26th of January 1944 and handed over on the 10th of May 1944.
Orangeville is a town in Ontario.
This ship undertook arduous convoy duties in the Western Atlantic off the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts. She belonged to the well-known Canadian Squadron known as the 'Barber Pole' group - so named because each of the ships had a red and white barber pole on her funnel.
Orangeville was sold out of the Canadian Navy to be converted to a passenger ship with Union Steamships Ltd of Vancouver.
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