Royal Canadian Navy Patrol and Torpedo Boats

Patrol and Torpedo Boats

HMCS Santa Maria (patrol boat); HMCS San Thomas (patrol boat); HMCS CMTB-1 (torpedo boat); HMCS S-09 (torpedo boat)

(RCN Photo, E-1331)

HMCS Santa Maria.

This vessel formed part of the pre-war Fishermen’s Reserve Fleet. This vessel was mobilized 15 Sep 1939. In 1940 this vessel was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy Fisherman's Reserve. In 1941 this vessel was appraised at $24,200. In 1942 this vessel was tender to HMCS Givenchy. In1943 this vessel was tender to HMCS Chatham. In 1944 this vessel was tender to HMCS Givenchy II. On July 25, 1960 this vessel struck an object and sank at Butedale BC in Tolmie Channel, British Columbia.

HMCS S-09

(RCN Photo)

HMCS S-09 (torpedo boat)

This was one of six U.S. PT boats acquired by the RN under Lend Lease in 1941.  Number PT-3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9, they were subsequently lent by the RN to the RCN.  PT-9 was re-designated S-09, while her five sisters served the RCAF as crash boats from 1941 to 1945.  Alone of the group, S-09 was built in Britain, by the British Power Boat Co. at Hythe, in 1939, for the Elco Boat Co. of new Jersey.  She was handed over to the RCN without engines, arriving in tow at Montreal on 23 Aug 1941.  There the Canadian Power Boat Co. fitted her with two 500 HP engines that enabled her to make only 22 knots. Delivered to the RCN on 25 Sep 1942, she served out of Halifax, Gaspé and Quebec before proceeding to Toronto in May, 1944, to serve as firing range patrol vessel off Frenchman's Bay.  On 15 Jun 1944, HMCS YORK was the Depot Ship for S09. She was turned over to the British Naval Liaison Officer at New York in late Jun 1945.

(RN Photo)

HM MTB-258, later HMCS S-09

70' Scott Paine Experimental Motor Torpedo Boat:

(Library of Congress Photo)

PT-9 with the Under Secretary of the Navy embarkedPhoto caption: New 'Mosquito Boat' ready for action. Washington, D.C., June 19, [1940]. The PT-9, first of the American Motor Torpedo Boats to be delivered to the U.S. Navy under the President's $15,000,000 experimental small craft program had a preview showing for the press today. The 'Mosquito Boat' and eight other ones will be based at the Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Va., where they will undergo service tests under various sea conditions to determine their capabilities and limitations. This is the same type of boat that the government is in the process of releasing to the British Navy. Chairman David L. Walsh of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee expressed indignation over the Navy's action in this respect in view of the fact that this government is trying to build up its own sea power.

(RN Photo)

HM MTB-258, later HMCS S-09.

(RN Photo)

HM MTB-258, later HMCS S-09.

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