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HMCS Arvida K113

             Commissioned at Quebec City on 22 May 1941, ARVIDA arrived at Halifax on 6 June. She joined Sydney Force in July, acting as escort to local sections of transatlantic convoys until September, when she joined Newfoundland Command. She left Sydney on 5 September to join her maiden ocean convoy, SC.43 and was thereafter in almost continuous service as an ocean escort until the end of 1943. In June 1942 she became a member of EG C-4 and, in May 1943 of C-5. While escorting convoy ON.188 in mid-June 1943 she was damaged by her own depth charges and arrived at Iceland on 16 June for a week of repairs. Three of ARVIDA’s convoys received particularly rough handling by U-boats: ONS.92 (May 1942), ON.127 (September 1942), and SC.107 (November 1942). While with ON.127 she rescued survivors of HMCS Ottawa on 13 September. She had major refits at Saint John (January to April 1942); Lunenburg/Saint John (December 1942 to March 1943); and Baltimore, Maryland (January to April 1944). While at Baltimore she was given her extended fo’c’s’le, afterward joining EG W-7 of WLEF. In mid-May 1944 she was sent to Bermuda to work up, returned to Halifax on 9 June, and in August joined EG W-2. In December she transferred to W-8, remaining with that group until the end of the war. ARVIDA was paid off on 14 June 1945 at Sorel and later sold for commercial use, entering service in 1948 as the Spanish-flag La Ceiba she also rescued the crew fron SS Empire Moonbeam sunk by UBoat action mid Alantic 12 Sept 1942. 
   

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