HMCS Brandon
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
“HMCS Brandon… was commissioned in Quebec City on July 22, 1941 and arrived in Halifax August 1. She joined the Newfoundland Command in September after working up and left St. John’s September 26 for her first convoy, SC 46. She served as an ocean escort to and from Iceland until December, when she arrived in the U.K. for three months of repairs. From mid-March, 1942, after three weeks work-ups at Tobermory; she served on the “Newfie-Derry” run almost continuously until September 1944.”
“From December 1942, onward, she served with Escort Group C4, helping defend the hard-pressed convoy HX.224 in February 1943, and in the following month escorting convoys to and from Gibraltar. In August 1943, she had a three-month refit at Grimsby, England. On February 5, 1945 she arrived in St. John’s to join the Western Escort Force, in which she served until the end of the war. Paid off at Sorel on June 22, 1945, she was broken up in Hamilton, Ont., in 1945.” (Canadian Navy)