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5603 Spring Street, Niagara Falls, ON L2G 1P7

The branch meets in the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 479, A.C. McCallum Memorial, on Spring Street at Don W. Johnson Park.

Pennant from HMCS STAR XVI

HMCS STAR XVI was one of a number of Norwegian whale catchers that served in the RCN during World War II.  249 tons gross, 116’ lbp, x 23’9” x 13’2”, she had a triple expansion Akers engine developing 800 ihp and made 10 knots.  Built in Oslo, Norway in 1930, she was in the Caribbean coming back from the South Atlantic whaling grounds following the German invasion of Norway on 9 April 1940.  She arrived in Halifax on April 24^th where most of her crew were paid off with some of them training in Lunenburg for service in the Norwegian Navy.  Taken into the RCN with a crew of 4 officers and 25 men, pennant number “Z-16”/J00, radio call sign CGWL, she served in the St. John’s Local Defence Force in early 1942 and then the Sydney Local Defence Force starting in June 1942, and was paid off on August 31^st, 1945.

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