This plaque is part of a campaign started in 2020 by the Royal United Services Institute of Regina, a local organization of civilians and retired military personnel, to install a series of twelve commemorative plaques around the cenotaph. It was unveiled on August 19, 2022. The plaques explain Canada's wartime history.
Flower Class Corvette HMCS Weyburn was named for the City of Weyburn, and served in the Second World War. Designed as a convoy escort vessel, she had a length of 63.5 metres, a 102 mm gun, various machine guns, a hedgehog mortar, 40 depth charges, sonar and radar. Her maximum speed was 16 knots (30km/h).
With a crew of 85 she served in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, escorting convoys and supporting the invasion of North Africa. On two occasions she rescued merchant marine sailors from torpedoed ships. On 22 February 1943, off the coast of Gibraltar, she struck a mine and sank. The crew also suffered from the ship's depth charges exploding as the ship sank. Seven of her crew were killed. HMCS Weyburn was awarded two Battle Honours.
