ON BOARD H.M.C.S. IROQUOIS OFF KOREA, Nov. 13 —Twelve hours after being hit by the shell that caused the first Canadian naval casualties of the Korean War, H.M.C.S. Iroquois returned to her patrol area, angrily seeking targets for her guns, and knocking out the battery that had scored the hit.

The Red shore battery which had killed one officer and two men — Lieut. Cmdr. John L. Quinn and Able Seamen Elburne Baikle and Walllis Burden—October 2, was given a severe pounding and if it had not been put out of action before was definitely silenced this time. (Quinn was from Halifax; Baikle from Hamilton, Ont, and Burden from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.) Three men were injured by the Communist shell. They were Edwin M. Jodin, of  Toronto; Joseph A. Gaudet, Tignish,  P.E.I, and Waldon Bergghen, Newport, Hants County, N.S.

REPLACED U.K. SHIP

The entire patrol began on September 29. The Iroquois, under Commander W. M. Landymore, Brantford Ont and Ottawa replaced the destroyer H.M.S. Charity in a task element operating off the east coast of Korea and 15 minutes after doing so was fired on by a hidden shore battery. None of the shells fell close and the destroyer, after vainly seeking to spot the battery, carried on with her patrol. On the morning of October 2,  U.S.S. Marsh, a destroyer escort, was carrying out an interdiction assignment on the shoreline stretch of railway just south of Songjin. During her morning's work, a short battery opened up at her but its shooting was off and the ship moved to seaward unharmed. In the afternoon the shore battery opened up again, this time with close accuracy and the Canadian ship was hit.

EARLY TRANSFER

Next morning, after an early transfer of the dead and wounded to U.S.S. Chemung, a supply ship carrying a surgical team, the Iroquois returned to her patrol. After laying a few salvoes on the gun position to get the range , the four inch guns began to pound. The gunnery officer, Lieut. Doug Tutte of Victoria and the torpedo anti-submarine officer, Lieut. Gordon MacFarlane of Victoria and Halifax, spotted two flashes which looked like shore shooting. The Iroquois' guns were dead on target, so Lieut. Tutte called for rapid-fire broadsides. The whole area was left a smouldering wreck and there was no further sigh of shooting from the enemy guns.