HMCS Elk (S05)

HMCS "Elk" was an armed yacht serving with the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War.

Career

"Elk" was built in 1926 by the Newport News Shipbuilding Company, Newport News, Virginia, and was originally named "Arcadia". The outbreak of the Second World War led to her being pressed into service with the Royal Canadian Navy, who commissioned her on 10 September 1940. They renamed her "Elk", in common with the conventions where armed yachts took the names of animals native to Canada. She had the pennant number S05, this later being changed to Z27. She was mostly employed on convoy escort duties, sailing with outward bound convoys from ports such as Halifax and Sydney, Nova Scotia until they had left Canadian waters. She would also meet inbound convoys and bring them into port. She survived the war and was decommissioned on 4 August 1945.

References

* [http://www.readyayeready.com/cgi-bin/query/display.pl?index=1126 HMCS Elk at readyayeready.com, the history of the Canadian Navy]