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  Tribal class destroyer. Who is Tribal class destroyer? What is Tribal class destroyer? Where is Tribal class ...
HMCS Haida, the only surviving tribal, is being restored and preserved as a museum in the harbour of Hamilton, Ontario Canada.
The front half of HMS Maori is under 13 meters of water in Marsamaxett Harbour, Valletta, Malta where it sunk during World War II.
HMCS Athabaska I was the only Canadian tribal sunk during World War II.
www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Tribal_class_destroyer   (277 words)

  
 HMCS Nootka (J35) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The HMCS Nootka was commissioned August 7, 1946 at Halifax, Nova Scotia a tribal class destroyer in the Canadian Navy.
Nootka served as a training ship until her conversion to a Destroyer escort in 1949-1950.
HMCS Haida, a sister ship, now a museum ship in Hamilton, Ontario.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMCS_Nootka_(J35)   (111 words)

  
 Side Story
No sooner than CAYUGA cleared the area, HMCS NOOTKA and her skilled crew demolished the record in an almost unbelievable time of three minutes and ten seconds.
HMCS HURON was not ready to attempt such a challenge and the United States Navy, the RN and the Royal Australian Navy had quit the contest.
NOOTKA'S crew recoiled in shock as they believed their record to be unbeatable.
hmcshaida.ca /oiling.html   (1145 words)

  
 Unterseeboot 190: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Unterseeboot 190
The minesweeper HMCS Esquimault[?] was conducting a routine patrol of the harbor.
She was employing none of the mandatory anti-submarine precautions: she was not zig-zagging; she had not streamed her towed decoy, designed as a countermeasure against Gnat torpedoes; she had turned off her radar.
While numerous reporters and photographers watched, and HMCS New Liskeard[?], Nootka[?], and Haida[?] stood by awaiting their turn, the Naval Air Arm began the attack with eight Seafires, eight Fairey Fireflies[?], two Avro Ansons[?], and two Fairey Swordfish.
www.encyclopedian.com /un/Unterseeboot-190.html   (743 words)

  
 HMCS Nootka - History
Commissioned on 7th August 1946 at Halifax, NOOTKA served as a training ship on the east coast and the Caribbean until her conversion to a destroyer escort in 1949 and 1950.
NOOTKA was one of the very few Canadian ships involved in the Cuban crises in 1962.
The Nootka, for which the ship is named, are North American Indians who traditionally lived along the seaward coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, and the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state.
www.jproc.ca /nootka/history.html   (681 words)

  
 HMCS Fortune - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMCS Fortune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
HMCS Fortune - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMCS Fortune.
HMCS Fortune was a minesweeper built for the Canadian Navy in 1955.
In 1969, she was decomissioned and sold to private interests, who renamed her "MV Edgewater Fortune" and refitted her as a charter yacht.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/HMCS-Fortune.html   (129 words)

  
 Kapyong, A Monument Beyond Juno Beach To Be Remembered
HMCS Athabaskan - second trip - received the Republic of Korea Citation for "exceptionally meritorious service and heroism." The Citation was signed by President Syngman Rhee, ROK and dated November 1, 1951.
HMCS Sioux departed the theatre on September 7, 1955 and returned to Esquimalt on 24 September 1955.
She was the last Canadian unit to leave the theatre other than for a handful of army personnel who remained for a short time to clean up last minute administrative chores.
www.senioryears.com /kapyong.html   (1616 words)

  
 wiki/HMCS Nootka Definition / wiki/HMCS Nootka Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
[click for more] Nootka was commissioned August 7August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining.
Nootka served as a training ship until her conversion to a DestroyerIn naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast and maneuverable yet long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet or battle group and defend them against smaller, short-range attackers (originally torpedo boats, later submarines and aircraft)....
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www.elresearch.com /wiki/HMCS_Nootka   (795 words)

  
 Canada's Navy: MARPAC - Image Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
HMCS Quebec is commissioned at Esquimalt on January 14, 1952.
HMCS Quebec, formerly HMS Uganda, was built in England in 1939 and served with the Royal Navy during WWII until purchased and commissioned by the Canadian Navy in 1944.
She continued to serve the European and Pacific theatres of WWII as HMCS Uganda until being refitted and re-commissioned for the third time as a result of the Korean War in 1952.
www.navy.dnd.ca /marpac/gallery/marpac_gallery_e.asp?category=23&page=2   (510 words)

  
 List of ships of the Canadian Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of ships in the Canadian Navy.
"HMCS" is the abbreviation of "Her Majesty's Canadian Ship" or "His Majesty's Canadian Ship", depending on the gender of the current head of state.
HMCS Assiniboine (I) Fraser (I) Ottawa (I) Restigouche (I) St. Laurent (I) edit]
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_ships_of_the_Canadian_Navy   (165 words)

  
 HMCS Haida - Commanding Officers
It was during this period that he took command of HMCS Haida, as the flag vessel of the reserve fleet.
It was home base for HMCS Magnificent, the aircraft carrier, HMCS Nootka and other Tribal Class destroyers that were soon preparing for war in Korea.
The Captain’s Cabin of HMCS Haida appeared to be a great place for the CO to receive visitors around noon on Saturdays: all good public relations, I am sure.
hmcshaida.ca /webber.html   (968 words)

  
 uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMCS Haida of the Tribal class
Here, final foodstuffs and repairs were made and she relieved NOOTKA as planned guard on the West Coast of Korea on the 18th.
On 15th July 1960, HAIDA escorted HMCS KOOTENAY with her cargo of an Indian totem pole, \'Hosaqami\' to HMS EXCELLENT to mark the end of R.C.N. Gunnery Courses at Whale Island.
Reservists from HMCS York, Toronto acted as skeleton crew and she was towed to Toronto by two tugs.
uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4441.html   (2955 words)

  
 Unterseeboot 190 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Her mission was to interdict Allied shipping off (Click link for more info and facts about Sable Island) Sable Island and in the approaches to (Provincial capital and largest city of Nova Scotia) Halifax harbor.
She was employing none of the mandatory anti-submarine precautions: she was not zig-zagging; she had not streamed her towed decoy, designed as a countermeasure against Gnat torpedoes; she had turned off her (Measuring instrument in which the echo of a pulse of microwave radiation is used to detect and locate distant objects) radar.
Esquimault sank so rapidly, however, that no distress signals were sent, and no one knew of the sinking until some eight hours later when HMCS Sarnia first discovered the survivors.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/U/Un/Unterseeboot_190.htm   (886 words)

  
 HMCS Nootka Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
On board HMCS Nootka in the late summer of 1952, I was on the middle watch in the Operations Room as an ABRP3 attending to the Sperry radar set.
We were in our patrol lane off the Onjin Peninsula (Korea) somewhat west of the island of Haeju in the Yellow Sea and fairly close inshore.
H.M.C.S. Nootka was the only United Nations ship to capture and sink a bona fide North Korean Naval Vessel.
www.jproc.ca /nootka/bogey.html   (456 words)

  
 The U190 joins the RCN
Touted on two occasions in the press as an exercise designed to train inexperienced post-war recruits in the art of combined operations, it was in fact a final touch of rather raffish theatre.
Painted in bright red and yellow longitudinal stripes, U-190 was towed to the spot where it had sunk HMCS Esquimault, and where at precisely 1100 hours on 21 October 1947 the tradition-bound RCN intended to celebrate Nelson's "glorious" Trafalgar Day victory over the French fleet in 1805 by pounding the empty hulk into the depths.
While the hapless "enemy" drifted, the "friendly" forces gathered for the kill: Tribal Class destroyers HMCS Nootka..., HMCS Haida..., and the Algerine minesweeper New Kiskeard [sic]....
www.mysteriesofcanada.com /Nova_Scotia/u190_and_rcn.htm   (397 words)

  
 Salty Dips Volume 8 - Sneak Preview
The remarkable achievements of the naval aviation component of the ice breaker HMCS Labrador are described by one of the naval pilots of the Bell helicopters, those little yellow machines which made possible much of the hydrographic survey work conducted in the Arctic by Labrador.
This account by a young officer in HMCS Skeena describes very well the operational developments associated with the Battle of the Atlantic in the 1943-44 period which gave rise to optimistic hopes of final victory against the U-boats.
He was in HMCS Levis, the first corvette sunk in 1941; and he was in the frigate HMCS Teme when she was torpedoed and became a constructive total loss in 1945.
www.noac.ottawa.on.ca /SDipsVol8.htm   (1390 words)

  
 Korean War Naval Chronology, May-August1952
HMCS Nootka (DD) on northern patrol with USS John W. Thompson (DD 760) and USS Endicott (DMS 35) received 160 rounds from seven enemy coastal guns probably radar-controlled east of Chuuronjang.
HMCS Nootka (DDE) received 12 rounds of unreported caliber enemy fire from the vicinity of Haeju with no damage or casualties reported.
HMCS Nootka (DDE) received four widely inaccurate rounds of estimated 79/76 mm a fire from guns near Samjong, Korean West Coast.
www.history.navy.mil /wars/korea/chron52b.htm   (10474 words)

  
 McPhee Family Tree
“It was a grim situation; HMCS Chebogue had been torpedoed by a U-boat in the mid-Atlantic.
He served as executive office in the destroyer escort Crescent and as commanding officer in both the coastal-escort Wallaceberg and the destroyer escort Nootka.
Between the summer of 1960 and that of 1962 he was Naval Member of the Joint Planning Staff at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa.
www.mcpheefamilytree.com /tabs/tab1/tab13.asp   (1191 words)

  
 HMCS Nootka - Shipmates
I served on Nootka from 16 Nov 1959 to 5 March 1961.
On return to Halifax from BC was drafted to the minesweeper "Wallaceburg" and then to "Nootka" in late 1951.
I was drafted to Nootka, in Sept 1951, along with Charlie Carside, Fred Doyle and Bert Tindall.
www.jproc.ca /nootka/shipmates.html   (1089 words)

  
 Canada's Navy: MARPAC - Image Gallery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
HMCS Sioux steams into Esquimalt Harbour February 4, 1951, to one of the greatest welcomes ever given a ship of the Royal Canadian Navy, including sirens, whistles, and horns, plus the roar of four RCAF Mustang fighters.
By the time the armistice is signed on July 27, 1953, a total of 3,621 officers and men of the RCN had served in a total of nine destroyers.
On March 5, 1998, HMCS Oriole moors at Napier, New Zealand, as part of a seven-month voyage to Australia.
www.navy.dnd.ca /marpac/gallery/marpac_gallery_e.asp?category=23&page=2   (403 words)

  
 HMCS Nootka - Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
HMCS Nootka was a Tribal class destroyer commissioned on Aug 7, 1946.
After serving as a training ship for the remainder of her service life, she was paid off in February 1964.
This page has been developed and is maintained by Jerry Proc and is dedicated to all those men who served in HMCS Nootka R96/DDE213.
www.jproc.ca /nootka   (106 words)

  
 Naval Museum of Manitoba - HMCS Alberni Commemoration - 4 May 03
Named after a town on Vancouver Island (and thus after Captain Don Pedro Alberni who commanded the Spanish Soldiers sent to occupy Nootka in 1790) HMCS ALBERNI was one of the earlier RCN corvettes to see service, with a minimum of time allowed for work-ups upon arrival at Halifax in April 1941.
At 11:45 on 21 August she was streaming south at fourteen knots in fair weather with a NNE wind of five knots but State Four seas for the rendezvous, sweeping by asdic eighty-degrees on either bow, radar operating.
But these are discounted by others who note the location is far too close to the island near where she was sunk, and the description of the vessel located does not appear to that of a corvette.
www.naval-museum.mb.ca /battle_atlantic/alberni/index.htm   (1919 words)

  
 Dominion Institute Digital Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Donald M. Jatiouk superimposed over the H.M.C.S. Nootka as it travels to the Korean war zone.
I had served on three different ships: the cruiser Ontario out on the west coast, the aircraft carrier HMCS Magnificent on the east coast, and then the Tribal class destroyer HMCS Nootka out of Halifax.
I was involved in the Korean War on board the Nootka.
www.thememoryproject.com /digital-archive/profile.cfm?collectionid=34&cnf=kw   (589 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Type IXC/40: Sunk 20 Nov, 1943 in the North Atlantic north-east of the Azores, in position 43.50N, 19.39W, by depth charges from the British frigate HMS Nene and the Canadian corvettes HMCS Snowberry and Calgary.
This ship, however, ultimately classified the contact as non-sub and abandoned the hunt to Waskesiu and for this reason the Admiralty may have deprived it of a share of the credit.
Kenneth Allen: (deceased) - originally from Niagara Falls, Ontario served as AB Seaman in HMCS Algonquin from February 1, 1944 until the end of the war.
www.igs.net /~djdelong/links/web_links.htm   (1366 words)

  
 Naval Museum of Manitoba - HMCS Alberni Commemoration - 4 May 03
On Sunday 4 May 2003, at HMCS CHIPPAWA, Winnipeg, Manitoba, the annual service that commemorates the Battle of the Atlantic will be held in the honour of HMCS ALBERNI and the ten Manitobans that perished on 21 August 1944.
HMCS ALBERNI was commissioned at Esquimalt on February 4, 1941 and she arrived at Halifax on April 13 in company with HMCS AGASSIZ.
After brief maintenance at Southampton, ALBERNI was ordered to relieve HMCS DRUMHELLER on patrol for U-boats to the eastward of the swept channel leading to the Normandy beaches.
naval-museum.mb.ca /battle_atlantic/alberni/index.htm   (1919 words)

  
 Destructor tribal de la clase (1936)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
HMCS Athabasca perdí de abril el 29 de 1944
El haida de HMCS, el único sobrevivir tribal, se está restaurando y se está preservando como museo en el puerto de Hamilton, Ontario Canadá.
HMCS Athabaska era el único tribal canadiense hundido durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/de/Destructor%20tribal%20de%20la%20clase%20%281936%29.htm   (265 words)

  
 Today in Korea - July 25, 2003 - Veterans Affairs Canada
The Canadian Destroyers HMCS Athabaskan, HMCS Cayuga and HMCS Sioux were fighting in Korean waters in 1950, before any Canadian troops had landed.
Other Destroyers that served in Korea included HMCS Crusader, HMCS Haida, HMCS Huron, HMCS Iroquois and HMCS Nootka.
The last ship out was HMCS Sioux, which departed for Canada on September 7th, 1955.
www.vac-acc.gc.ca /clients/sub.cfm?source=feature/korea2003/korpilgrim03/korjuly2503   (370 words)

  
 Biography
On completion was posted to HMCS NOOTKA and over to Korea.
Whilst in the NOOTKA I was recommended for "CW'' (commissioning warrant) candidate, which was not followed up in Stadacona.
Completed "TD'' 2's course and drafted to HMCS COLUMBIA which was being commissioned on the west cost at Burrards in Vancouver.
www.saoc-central.com /Wilkens.html   (1941 words)

  
 Sandy Goldstien
HMCS Warrior was part of the RCN from 1946 until 1948 and not being suitable for the east coast was transfered to the west coast.
Then again all this would be a moot point if the destroyer ain't 'Sioux'.
In the photo of the unidentified ships could they be the destroyer HMCS Crusader, Cruiser Quebec and the Maggie?
www.myrcn.ca /22sandy/sandy.html   (647 words)

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