Allied Warships

HMCS Arrowhead (K 145)

Corvette of the Flower class

Navy	The Royal Canadian Navy
Type	Corvette
Class	Flower
Pennant	K 145
Built by	Marine Industries Ltd. (Sorel, Quebec, Canada)
Ordered	22 Jan 1940
Laid down	11 Apr 1940
Launched	8 Aug 1940
Commissioned	22 Nov 1940
End service	27 Jun 1945
History	Fo'c's'le extended at Baltimore (Maryland, U.S.A.) on 25 May 1944. Decommissioned and returned to the Royal Navy on 27 June 1945. Sold in May 1947. Became the merchantile Southern Larkspur in 1948. Scapped at Odense, Denmark in November 1959.
Former name	HMS Arrowhead

Commands listed for HMCS Arrowhead (K 145)

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	Commander	From	To
1	T/Lt. Victor Harrison Torraville, RCNR	21 Nov 1940	17 Jan 1941
2	Lt.Cdr. Edgar George Skinner, RCNR	18 Jan 1941	19 Apr 1943
3	Skr.Lt. Lester Alton Hickey, RCNR	20 Apr 1943	10 Feb 1944
4	T/Lt. William Percy Wickett, RCNVR	11 Feb 1944	4 Mar 1944
5	T/Lt. Roy Howard Sylvester, RCNVR	5 Mar 1944	15 Apr 1944
6	Skr.Lt. Lester Alton Hickey, RCNR	16 Apr 1944	21 Oct 1944
7	T/Lt. Roy Howard Sylvester, RCNVR	22 Oct 1944	27 Jun 1945

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Notable events involving Arrowhead include:

9 Oct 1942
HMCS Hepatica (T/Lt. T. Gilmour, RCNR) and HMCS Arrowhead (Cdr. E.G. Skinner, DSO, RCNR) together pick up 19 survivors from the Canadian merchant Carolus that was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of St.Lawrence near Bic Island in position 48°47'N, 68°10'W by German U-boat U-69.

26 Jul 1944
HMS L 27 (Lt. J.N. Elliott, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Bermuda with HMCS Arrowhead (Skr.Lt. L.A. Hickey, RCNR), HMCS Guelph (Lt. G.H. Hayes, DSC, RCN), HMCS Thetford Mines (T/Lt. J.A.R. Allan, DSC, RCNVR) and HMCS Mahone (T/Lt. L.R. Hoar, RCNVR). (1)

27 Jul 1944
HMS L 27 (Lt. J.N. Elliott, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Bermuda with HMCS Thetford Mines (T/Lt. J.A.R. Allan, DSC, RCNVR), HMCS Cobourg (T/Lt. G.H. Johnson, RCNVR), HMCS Arrowhead (Skr.Lt. L.A. Hickey, RCNR) and HMCS Guelph (Lt. G.H. Hayes, DSC, RCN).

1 Aug 1944
HMS L 27 (Lt. J.N. Elliott, RN) conducted A/S exercises off Bermuda with and HMCS Runnymede (Lt. R.C. Chenoweth, RCNVR), HMCS Joliette (Skr.Lt. G.N. Downey, RCNR), HMCS Arrowhead (Skr.Lt. L.A. Hickey, RCNR) and HMCS Mahone (T/Lt. L.R. Hoar, RCNVR). (1)

16 Apr 1945
HMCS Arrowhead (K 145) helped search for survivors from the sinking of HMCS Esquimalt (J 272) after it was sunk (2)