Receiver of Wreck presents tally plate from HMCS Regina K-234 wreck to Royal Canadian Navy

Receiver of Wreck Camilla Moore presented a tally plate recovered from the wreck of HMCS Regina (K-234) to the Royal Canadian Navy at Portsmouth Naval Base on Thursday 29th October.

The artefact’s return to the Royal Canadian Navy is timely in the sense that it coincides with the 75th anniversary, which happened earlier this year, of the end of the Battle of the Atlantic – the longest-running and continuous military campaign endured during the Second World War. 

HMCS Regina (K-234), which was a flower-class corvette and used as part of important convoy escort duties for other vessels in the war, was launched to sea in October 1941. She supported the Royal Navy and allied forces with coastal convoy escorts in the Atlantic Sea between 1942-44, the Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1942, in Mediterranean waters (1943), at Normandy in 1944 and the English Channel in the same year.

The vessel was torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi Germany submarine on 8th August 1944 – eight miles off Trevose Head off the coast of Cornwall. Sadly, this resulted in the loss of life of 28 crew on-board at the time.

The tally plate was found 20 metres from the wreck of the vessel by a diver and reported to the Receiver of Wreck. The finder kindly decided to waive their right to a salvage award in order for the item to be returned to its owner, the Royal Canadian Navy.

Last week, Jeff Dargavel, Commanding Officer of the HMCS Toronto, accepted the presentation of the salvaged plate in Portsmouth, from the Maritime & Coastguard Agency’s Receiver of Wreck.

The tally plate is to be returned to Canada where it will be displayed within HMCS Regina (FFH-334), a Halifax-class frigate and the second vessel to carry the name, HMCS Regina. The newer ship is currently homeported in Esquimalt, British Columbia, and has served the Canadian Forces since 1993. 

Receiver of Wreck Camilla Moore said: “It is my duty to attempt to return wreck material to its owner, and I am delighted that we were able to assist in returning the tally plate from HMCS Regina (K-234) to the Royal Canadian Navy. It is particularly poignant given the circumstances of the vessel loss and the significance of the Battle of the Atlantic in its 75th anniversary year.”

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