Algerine Class Fleet Minesweepers - Ships' Fate & Badges (RCN Escorts)

	The 110 Ships, Their Fate & Their Badges RCN Escorts
This page last updated 14^th May 2005

Ship	Pendant	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Disposal & Fate
BORDER CITIES	J344	P.A.	26.08.42	03.05.43	18.05.44	B.U. 1948
FORT FRANCES	J396	P.A.	11.05.43	30.10.43	28.10.44	B.U. 1974
KAPUSKASING	J326	P.A.	19.12.42	22.07.43	17.08.44	Sunk as target 1978
MIDDLESEX	J328	P.A.	29.09.42	27.05.43	08.06.44	Ran aground; C.T.L. 1946
NEW LISKEARD	J397	P.A.	08.07.43	14.01.44	21.11.44	B.U. 1969
OSHAWA	J330	P.A.	06.10.42	10.06.43	06.07.44	B.U. 1966
PORTAGE	J331	P.A.	23.05.42	21.11.42	22.10.43	B.U. 1961
ROCKLIFFE	J355	P.A.	23.12.42	19.08.43	30.09.44	B.U. 1960
SAULT STE MARIE	J334	P.A.	27.01.42	05.08.42	24.06.43	B.U. 1960
ST BONIFACE	J332	P.A.	21.05.42	05.11.42	10.09.43	Sold mercantile 1946
WALLACEBURG	J336	P.A.	06.07.42	17.12.42	18.11.43	1959 Transferred to Belgium ren. G. LECOINTE; B.U. 1969
WINNIPEG	J337	P.A.	31.01.42	19.09.42	29.07.43	1959 Transferred to Belgium ren. A.F. DUFOUR; B.U. 1966

Of the 12 Algerines commissioned by the then Royal Canadian Navy, we only have badges for 9. A letter received by Robin Allum, our Ships Visits and Museums Officer, from the Maritime Command Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia explains why we are unlikely to get the other three.

"The Canadian navy did not have official ships' badges until 1946. Anything in use prior to then was unofficial or simply a drawing (frequently a cartoon) used on the gun shield. In 1946, the Admiralty Board recommended that all commissioned ships used a standardized pattern, consisting of a rope circle, a naval crown and heraldic design.

Border Cities, St. Boniface and Middlesex were paid off by this time and did not have badges designed for them. the other nine ships badges were designed for the ships because they were in commission for varying periods following the Second World War. They do not represent their wartime history as the navy does not back date badges.

There is no reason why you cannot use the nine badges that you have already to represent those Algerines as long as you are aware that they do not date to that period."