HMCS Columbia (I49)
Photograph taken by Charles James Sadler, RCNVR. First Class Stoker, Official number V-4963.
| Navy: | Royal Canadian Navy |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Class: | Town |
| Pennant: | I 49 |
| Built by: | Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. (Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.) |
| Laid down: | 30 Mar, 1918 |
| Launched: | 4 Jul, 1918 |
| Commissioned: | 24 Sep, 1940 |
| End service: | 17 Mar, 1944 |
| History: |
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Refitted in 1941 at Devonport
and then assigned to the 4th Escort Group. HMCS Columbia (Lt.Cdr R.A.S.
MacNeil, OBE, RCNR) was heavily damaged when owing to faulty radar & heavy
fog, she rammed a cliff without grounding in Motion Bay, Newfoundland on
25 February 1944, not repaired and decommissioned 17 March 1944. Used as a fuel and ammunition hulk at Liverpool, Nova Scotia until she was sold to be broken up for scrap on 7 August 1945 |
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| Former name | USS Haraden (DD 183) |
