HMCS Oakville article, page 1 of 3
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- HMSC Oakville history, page 1
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- OAKVILLE was one of the "Flower" Class corvettes built at the Lakehead by the Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company. Her triple expansion steam reciprocator was constructed by the Dominion Engineering Company and its 2750 horse-power gave her a top speed of 16 1/2 knots.
Her keel was laid on 21 December 1940, her hull was launched on 21 June 1941 and she was completed in time to go down the river that same year, on 18 November.
After a period in Dockyard hands in Halifax for final adjustments to equipment, she sailed on her first operational voyage on 8 January 1942. Assigned to the Western Local Escort Force, she plied on the convoy routes between New York and St. John's, Newfoundland, visiting Boston, Saint John, and Sydney, until the following June, when she was transferred to the Halifax Force.
Her duties with this formation took her abroad--she was assigned to the escort of convoy HA-1, the first convoy in the Halifax to Aruba series, Aruba being the Dutch island refinery which is the transshipping point for all oil from the Lake Maracaibo oil field in Venezuela. After a brief return to Halifax she was employed for a while on local convoys in the Caribbean sea.
While escorting TAW-15 (Trinidad, Aruba, Key West) on 28 August 1942, Oakville encountered the King's Enemies on the high sea for the first time and sank the U-94 after it had been... - Subject(s)
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- HMCS Oakville - E. Stewart, Curator
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