HMCS Rimouski (K121)
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HMCS Rimouski (K121) was a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy.
Rimouski was built at Davie Shipbuilding and launched on October 3, 1940. She was decommissioned on July 24, 1945 and scrapped in 1950.
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[edit] Wartime service
- Rimouski served in the Battle of the St. Lawrence and participated in RCN operations as part of "Operation Pointe Maisonnette", the Canadian military's counter-offensive to the German military's "Operation Kiebitz" which saw several naval officers (including Otto Kretschmer) escape from the Camp 30 prisoner of war camp at Bowmanville, Ontario with a planned extraction by U-536 off Pointe Maisonnette, New Brunswick on September 26-27, 1943. Rimouski was outfitted with an experimental version of diffuse lighting camouflage for the operation, however the submarine escaped.
- Rimouski was one of 57 RCN warships that participated in Operation Overlord.
[edit] Trivia
A common tradition of painting a mascot on a naval ship's gun shields, the Rimouski featured a boisterous cowboy with a 10-gallon hat lassoing a U-boat from the back of his steed.
[edit] Crew
- Commodore Angus George Boulton was the commanding officer in 1941.
- Rear-Admiral John Pickford was the commanding officer from 1943-1944, being the youngest commanding officer in the RCN during World War II.
- Douglas Clark was the commanding officer from 1944-1945.
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