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HMCS St. Thomas (K488)
HMCS ''St. Thomas'' was a Castle-class corvette of the Royal Canadian Navy. She served during the Second World War in the Battle of the Atlantic, taking part in the sinking of the German U-boat ''U-877'' in 1944.
==War service==
The British Admiralty ordered as ''Sandgate Castle'' on 19 January 1943. and allocated her the pennant number K373. She was built at Smiths Dock and launched on 28 December 1943, but was never commissioned into the Royal Navy. Instead, she was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy.
''St. Thomas'' was named for the city of St. Thomas, Ontario in Canada and was commissioned on 4 May 1944 with the pennant number K488.〔 Her first captain was Lieutenant Commander Leslie Perman Denny, RCNR. Of the ship's complement, at least five were from St. Thomas, and about a dozen from Elgin County.〔
Her primary mission was to escort convoys across the North Atlantic to Britain. The ship was equipped with sonar, radar and anti-submarine weapons such as depth charges used to sink U-boats.〔 After working up at Tobermory she joined the Mid-Ocean Escort Force escort group C-3 as a trans-Atlantic convoy escort. ''St. Thomas'' escorted 13 convoys across the North Atlantic in 1944-1945.
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