HMCS Margaree (H49)
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| HMCS Margaree (I) | |
|---|---|
| Career |  |
| Former Name: |  HMS Diana |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Class: | D | RIVER |
| Pennant: | H49 |
| Built By: | Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co., Ltd |
| Build Location: | Jarrow-on-Tyne, UK |
| Ordered: | |
| Laid down: | 12 June 1931 |
| Launched: | 16 June 1932 |
| Commissioned (RCN): | 6 September 1940 |
| Lost: | 22 October 1940 |
| Commanding Officer: | 
A/LCdr J.W. Roy (September 6, 1940 to October 22, 1940 |
It was purchased by the Canadian Navy as a replacement for HMCS Fraser, lost in an earlier accident, and was commissioned on 6 September, 1940 as the HMCS Margaree with Lieutenant Commander J.W. Roy, RCN as commanding officer.
On 20 October 1940 she left Derry, Northern Ireland as the sole escort of a small convoy, in her way to join a larger one for the Atlantic crossing to Halifax.
Margaree was lost on 22 October, 1940 when it collided with the freighter M.V. Port Fairy in rough weather. In the collision, some 300 miles West of Ireland, the captain, four officers and 136 sailors were killed.
[edit] References
Dan van der Vat The Atlantic Campaign, , ISBN 0060159677
| RCN River-Class Destroyers |  |
|
|---|---|---|
| A-class: | Saguenay (I) | Skeena (I) | |
| C-class: | Assiniboine (I) | Fraser (I) | Ottawa (I) | Restigouche (I) | St. Laurent (I) | |
| D-class: | Kootenay (I) | Margaree (I) | |
| E-class: | Gatineau (I) | |
| F-class: | Qu'Appelle (I) | Saskatchewan (I) | |
| G-class: | Ottawa (II) | |
| H-class: | Chaudière (I) | |
