HMCS Longueuil (K672)

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His Majesty's Canadian Ship LONGUEUIL, K672 was a Canadian River Class frigate commissioned 18 May 1944 at Montréal.

She was built by Canadian Vickers and paid off 31 December 1945. Her commanding officer was Lieutenant Commander M.J. Woods, RCNVR, the ship's only Commander. She operated on the east coast going to Derry with convoy HXF.302 after working in Bermuda. In June 1945 the ship was sent to British Columbia for tropicalization refit, but that was cancelled and the ship was paid off. In 1947 she was scuttled as a breakwater at Kelsey Bay, BC. As for photos and crew lists, try National Archives in Ottawa.

[edit] 223 Royal Canadian Sea Cadets Corps LONGUEUIL

On 1 November 1970, the then Major (later becoming a Commander) Émilien Paradis, C.D., (who also founded the Sea Cadet Summer Training Centre HMCS QUÉBEC and other cadet corps in the region), founded 223 RCSCC CHIMO. By the mid 1980s, the name of the unit was changed to 223 RCSCC LONGUEUIL, in part to honour HMCS LONGUEUIL.

HMCS LONGUEUIL	Unofficial badge of HMCS LONGUEUIL. Since there were no existing norms for badges for HMC Ships during World War II, commanding officers would at times allow members of the ship's company to create a badge. The badge created for HMCS LONGUEUIL allows the viewer to see that origins of the ships name, seeing that it uses the shield of the arms of the City of Longueuil.	This is the current badge of the unit. The maple leaves however should be red, according to the norms for badges of the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets, and the Navy League of Canada Cadets. The badge uses the shield of the arms of the City of Longueuil, as HMCS LONGUEUIL did.	This is the unofficial badge of 223 RCSCC CHIMO. The badge has incorporates images of Inuit life, and has an anchor to express the naval element of the unit. The problem with this unofficial badge is the use of the fleur de lys instead of the maple leaf. This was probably due to nationalist tendencies in Québec at the time.
It has been found that of a time, the badge of HMCS LONGUEUIL has been used as the unofficial badge of 223 RCSCC Longueuil. However, instead of the letter HMCS, this was replaced by 223 the number of the unit.	Gunner is the official mascot of 223 RCSCC Longueuil. It was designed by a former cadet and is still in use.