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TELEGRAM, TORONTO, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1946 War-Scarred Corvette On Way To China K 138 rests in Toronto preparatory to going to China. Telegram Photo As HMCS Barrie she braved Atlantic storms and war's hazards. HULL numbered, yard numbered, named and then commission , numbered, HMC Corvette Barrie stopped over at Toronto for minor repairs and readjustments, on her way down the Great Lakes to St. Lawrence waterways and tidewater. She was built and commissioned at an Upper Lake shipyard. She joined the war fleet and did her regulation laps in patrol and escort service. When the war ended she went through the grind of war assets disposal; arrived at Hamilton to drowse in the company of other hulks and, eventually, arrive at Toronto, officially entered under her commission number K-138. She was in again for repairs and reconditioning, preparatory to another transit of inland waterways to tidewater, and ultimate service in a Chinese Government fleet. Toronto' Shipbuilding Co. is only a memory now; so instead of going to moorings at the wartime fitting birth at the foot of Spadina ave., and the ministrations of wartime mechanics and engineers, the Barrie went to the Don Basin to be rehabilitated by mechanics of Toronto Dry Dock' Co. A brief dispatch dated Oct. 12, 1944, tells of one of the Barrie's many adventures. It is dated at "a Newfoundland port," and relates tersely that "Fourteen survivors from a merchant ship, torpedoed in the Western Atlantic, were rescued after they had drifted eight hours in an open lifeboat by the corvette. HMCS Barrie, and brought'here for hospitalization and refitting. Five of the fourteen were badly injured and taken to the Merchant Seamen's Hospital . . ." Fourteen were lost with their ship, mostly Newfoundlanders. In the midst of the rescue work a sub-' marine contact was obtained, and the Barrie carried out an attack. Later HMCS Shawinigan obtained a contact. One Toronto seaman is mentioned in the dispatch. PO Maxwell Martin, who was with the boat's crew that rescued the fourteen survivors.