page_title: HMCS Cobalt (K124)
section_title: Wartime service
hierarchical_section_title: HMCS Cobalt (K124) / Wartime service
caption_attribution_description: English: On Board HMS Victorious. 16 and 17 November 1941, at Hvalfjord, Iceland. The corvette HMCS COBALT leaving Hvalfjord.
context_page_description: HMCS Cobalt was a Flower-class corvette of the Royal Canadian Navy which took part in convoy escort duties during the Second World War. She served primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic. She was named for Cobalt, Ontario.
context_section_description: Cobalt was completed early in January 1941. On 22 January 1941 she took part in the Canadian Navy's first secret trial of diffused lighting camouflage, a technology for concealing ships from submarines at night.
  She worked up and joined Halifax Force, but left on 23 May 1941 with the six other corvettes that were the nucleus of the new Newfoundland Escort Force (NEF). For the next six months she operated as an ocean escort between St. John's and Iceland.
  Following completion of her first refit, Cobalt made two round trips to Derry before being assigned in May 1942 to the Western Local Escort Force (WLEF), with which she was to spend the balance of the war. During her time with WLEF she served with escort groups EG W-6 from June 1943; with W-5 from April 1944; and with W-7 from February 1945. She finished the war with group W-7.
caption: HMCS Cobalt leaving Iceland
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