HMCS Whitby

There has been only one vessel named Whitby in the Royal Canadian Navy.

HMCS Whitby (K346) / Flower-class corvette

Commissioned at Midland, Ontario on 6 June 1944, HMCS Whitby arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia 16 August.

Following work-ups in Bermuda in September, she sailed directly to St. John’s, Newfoundland and arrived on 30 September. Assigned to Escort Group C-4, she left St. John’s for Londonderry, Northern Ireland on 5 October to join the group, with which she was to serve for the balance of the war carrying out convoy escort duties.

HMCS Whitby left Londonderry for Canada in mid-June 1945, was paid off on 16 July, and placed in reserve at Sorel, Quebec. She was sold in 1946 for merchant service and reportedly renamed Bengo.

• Builder: Midland Shipyards Ltd., Midland, Ontario
• Date laid down: 1 April 1943
• Date launched: 18 September 1943
• Date commissioned: 6 June 1944
• Date paid off: 16 July 1945
• Displacement: 985.6 tonnes
• Dimensions: 63.5 m x 10.1 m x 2.9 m
• Speed: 16 knots
• Crew: 85
• Armament: one 4-inch (102-mm) gun, one 2-pound (0.9 kg) gun, two 20-mm guns (2 x I), one Hedgehog mortar and depth charges

Battle honours

• Atlantic 1944-1945