HMCS Oakville article, page 2 of 3
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- ..detected and damaged by a US Naval aircraft. The fight has been vividly described in Maclean's Magazine, 19 October 1963, by the officer who boarded the U-94, Sub-Lieutenant Harold E.T. Lawrence, under the title "The Craziest Kill of the U-boat War"' The damage sustained in ramming the enemy forced OAKVILLE to return to Halifax for repairs.
She was not ready to face the high seas again until the new year when she returned to southern waters escorting convoy to New York and thence to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. By this time the U-boat offensive in the Caribbean was dying down, so in March OAKVILLE was returned to Canadian control. She was again allocated to Wetsern Local Escort Force and the convoy port from New York to St. John's again saw her regularly.
By this time, improvements were being made to Corvettes and OAKVILLE was due for a refit at the end of the year. On 15 December 1943, she was taken in hand at Galveston , Texas, and her forecastle had been extended aft to cover much of her upper deck, she had improved radar, her 0.5" machine guns were replaced by singly-mounted 20-mm Oerlikon guns and she bore the new "hedgehog" --an anti-submarine mortar that threw bombs ahead of the ship.
After a visit to Halifax, she underwent a period of "working-up' exercises at Bermuda to prepare her for operations again. On 16June 1944 she returned to duty with the Western Local Escort Force. Still she plied tirelessly up and down the convoy routes with little change. In October the shore radio... - Subject(s)
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- HMCS Oakville - E. Stewart, Curator
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