Just a hardworking ship HMCS Moncton, Flower-class corvette. She sunk no U-Boats claimed no glory, however, she helped escort 52 Atlantic convoys from June 1942 to December 1943 before being transferred to Canada's west coast. From July 1944 to December 1945 she was tasked to Pacific Coast Command (unallocated). Decommissioned in December 1945 Moncton was sold by Crown Assets in 1955 into mercantile service and was re-flagged under the Netherlands as the whaling ship Willem Vinke, 718 GRT. She was scrapped September in 1966 at Santander, Cantabria, Spain by Recuparciones Submarinas S.A.
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