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	Stories - D Day Eve
		It was the eve of D-Day and HMCS Algonquin was anchored half a mile from Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
		In March 1942, when I was drafted to HMCS Kamloops K176, she just arrived from the west coast with all new crew on board.
		HMCS Kamloops was also hired to be a camera ship receiving $1000 a day for her work in filming the movie Corvette K225.
	www.jproc.ca /r17/ddayeve.html (850 words)

	hmcs pictou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		HMCS Pictou (pennant number K146) was a Flower class corvette of the Canadian navy during World War II.
		Built in Quebec, Canada, she was launched on 5 October 1940, and decomissioned on 12 July 1945, passing into civilian service.
		Like most Flower class corvettes she spent most of her time on convoy escort duties in the Battle of the Atlantic (1940).
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /hmcs_pictou.html (157 words)

	Canada's Navy: HMCS REGINA - About the Ship
		The "Revised Flower" Class corvette, HMCS REGINA, was laid down in the yards of Marine Industries Ltd., Sorel, Quebec, on 22 March 1941 and launched on 14 October.
		Near the end of 1942 HMCS REGINA was one of the seventeen corvettes selected to support Operation "Torch", the Allied invasion of North Africa.
		She arrived in Britain in November 1942, was fitted with new equipment suitable for conditions in the Mediterranean, defects were made good and she sailed with convoys plying between the UK and Algiers, Casablanca and other African ports.
	www.navy.dnd.ca /regina/about/ship_about_e.asp?category=50 (676 words)

	Dominion Institute Digital Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Anthony Griffin on the bridge of the HMCS Pictou, first convoy, early 1941.
		On board with the HMCS Pictou in action while they attack a German submarine U-Boat, 1941.
		The griffin family crest adorns the gun shield of the corvette H.M.C.S. Pictou with Captain 'Tony' Griffin, 1942.
	www.thememoryproject.com /digital-archive/profile.cfm?collectionid=263&cnf=wwII (382 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Flower class Corvettes
		HMCS Charlottetown (i) (K 244) (lost 11 Sep, 1942)
		HMCS Levis (i) (K 115) (lost 19 Sep, 1941)
		HMCS Louisburg (i) (K 143) (lost 6 Feb, 1943)
	uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=42 (1250 words)

	Photo Archive
		The frigate HMCS SWANSEA (306) can be seen in the background, with a couple tugs to the bottom left of the photo.
		This is the propeller from HMCS CAPE SCOTT, the East Coast fleet maintenance ship, and it is now mounted in front of the Rollo Mainguy Building, MARCOM Command, in HMC Dockyard, Halifax.
		HMCS IROQUOIS is the first ship lifted by the newly refurbished Synchrolift, on Nov. 1, 1986.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/canada/photarch2 (1097 words)

	Dominion Institute Digital Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On board the HMCS Lanark in the North Atlantic Ocean while on convoy duty, 1944.
		And it was fixed up to look like a ship so that all of us young boys, aged 18, 19 and 20, were made to feel that we were already in the Navy.
		I was on the triangle run at first, on a ship, HMCS Kenogami, which ran from St. John's, Newfoundland to Halifax and New York, escorting ships from overseas.
	www.thememoryproject.com /digital-archive/profile.cfm?collectionid=101&cnf=wwII (694 words)

	The first Earl Grey
		She was unique in many ways: in her elegant yacht-like lines; in her fine clipper bow, designed to slice through ice, rather than ride up over it and smash it; and in the fact that she was designed to double as the vice-regal yacht.
		On October 3, 1914 she was transferred to the Canadian Navy and commissioned as HMCS Earl Grey.
		On October 7, 1914 she sailed with a naval crew under the command of Charles W. Trousdale, R.N., and arrived in Arkhangel'sk on October 26, 1914.
	www.boatnerd.com /shiphotos/Story-Photos/1999/earlgrey/first.htm (467 words)

	Lookout Newspaper - CFB Esquimalt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The cool September night enveloped HMCS Ottawa’s open bridge, but the young sailor was snug warm in his oilskin coat.
		During the four day attacks on the convoy by the wolf pack, Ottawa and other ships had plucked many survivors from the ocean, and had them on board at the time it was torpedoed.
		He finished the war as the Coxswain of the corvette HMCS Pictou.
	www.lookoutnewspaper.com /20051107_4.htm (1210 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)

	Daily Report - April 24 - Veterans Affairs Canada
		Following an early morning drive to Halifax, youth delegates from West Pictou District High School are introduced to several of the veterans taking part in the day's events.
		A happy group photo of the students from West Pictou District and Lunenburg High Schools on the grounds of the Maritime Command Museum.
		Students from Lunenburg and Pictou County gathered alongside the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, the Honourable Myra Freeman and veterans from Norway and Canada.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /clients/sub.cfm?source=feature/norway/directapr24 (1260 words)

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		After two summers at HMCS Cornwallis, I took the Navigation Instructor's Course and in the summer of 1967 I was sent to HMCS Porte de la Reine as Engineering Officer.
		HMCS Kingston, hull number 700, the first of the new Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDV) and name ship of the class will be commissioned in Kingston, Ontario on Saturday, 21 September, 1996 at 2:00 pm.
		He commissioned the new corvette, HMCS Brandon and commanded her during the most difficult phases of the Battle of the Atlantic.
	www.angelfire.com /on2/UNTD/Newsback.html (12071 words)

	FLOWER Class
		Few corvettes saw service in Canada after the war, although HMCS SUDBURY was sold and converted into a salvage tug.
		Others were sold foreign, either into other navies or converted for merchant service as cargo carriers or whaling ships among others.
		HMCS BARRIE illustrating why corvettes were known as lively ships.
	www.hazegray.org /navhist/canada/ww2/flower (602 words)

	logarchive2
		After training was sent overseas to HMCS Niobe to join HMCS Crusader,but was sent home for 30 days leave because I had signed to go to the Pacific.Spent some time on HMCS Border Cities preparing her to go to the West Coast,but as usual things got fouled up.
		Comments: I joined the navy at HMCS Cataraqui in 1941 my official #is V18367 HMCS Catarqui thenis where the halliday in is in Kingston Ontario at the foot of Princess St.We had six weeks training and, we were billeted in private homes on a allowance of $1.45 a day for room and board.
		I served on HMCS Kamloops K176 1942,out of Pictou N.S.it was a very friendly little town,and HMCS Algoma K127 out of Quebec city to Rigalet Labrador and my last ship HMCS Algonquin R17 under the command of Debbie Piers in 1944 and 45.
	www.myrcn.ca /34archives/logarchive11.html (2311 words)

	MARHST-L archives -- January 2005 (#827)
		(6) HMCS PICTOU(K146) Cof, C/S "CGTN" Yard#520, Log:jn:13' Gun shield art, 'A mythical griffin holding a broken U-boat aloft'.
		(8) HMCS BUCTOUHE(K179) Cof, C/S "CGTQ" Yard#522, Log:jn:15, aka: "Buck" Gun shield art, 'A justifiably apprehensive Adolph being bucked from the back of a visibly annoyed burro, the burro wearing a matelote's cap" Post WW.II, sold, International Iron and Metal Co. Hamilton 1946, broken up.
		(7) HMCS CAMROSE(K154) Cof, C/S "CGTZ" Yard#84, Log:jn:27, Gun shield art, 'Popeye the sailor smoking a corncob pipe, wearing a cap with a CAMROSE tally, going fishing for a U-boat with a depth charge as bait' Post WW.II, broken up 1947 Hamilton, ON.
	post.queensu.ca /cgi-bin/listserv/wa?A2=ind0501&L=marhst-l&F=&S=&P=92418 (653 words)

	pictou - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Pictou : Columbia Encyclopedia, Six Edition [home, info]
		Pictou : Columbia Gazetteer of North America [home, info]
		Phrases that include pictou: hmcs pictou, pictou disease, pictou island
	www.onelook.com /?w=pictou (97 words)

	The Grimmest Period - Veterans Affairs Canada
		In the fall of 1942, with nearly 300 submarines available--over ten times as many as at the outbreak of war--Dönitz was able to send 20 or more against a single convoy.
		Anti-submarine grenade launched into the air by the corvette HMCS Pictou during submarine attack, March 1942.
		At first the Canadian groups held their own, but as the size of the ‘wolf packs’ increased and winter storms swept the Atlantic, several convoys escorted by the RCN suffered heavy losses.
	www.vac-acc.gc.ca /youth/sub.cfm?source=history/secondwar/atlantic/atlanpub5 (372 words)

	Thatcher
		Renamed HMCS Niagara (1.57), the destroyer departed Halifax on 30 November; proceeded eastward via St. John's, Newfoundland; and arrived in the British Isles on 11 December.
		Another refit at Pictou came in June and October 1943, before she continued her coastwise convoy escort missions through 1944.
		Niagara became a torpedo-firing ship—first at Halifax and later at St. John, New Brunswick—from the spring of 1945 until the end of World War II in mid-August 1945, training torpedomen.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/t4/thatcher-i.htm (1077 words)

	350Flower
		HMCS Buctouche, HMCS Hepatica, HMCS Lunenburg, HMCS Levis,
		HMCS Chambly, HMCS Chicoutimi, HMCS Dauphin, HMCS Eyebright,
		HMCS Charlottetown, HMCS Napanee, HMCS Prescott, HMCS Sudbury,
	www.modelshipbuilding.com /350flower.htm (732 words)

	HMCS Pictou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		HMCS Pictou (pennant number K146) was a Flower corvette of the Canadian navy during World War II Built in Quebec Canada she was launched on 5 October 1940 and decomissioned on 12 July 1945 passing into civilian service.
		Like most class corvettes she spent most of her on convoy escort duties in the Battle of the Atlantic (1940).
		An 8 episode record of life aboard HMCS Pictou 'A Naval Officer's War (http://www.naval.ca/cnmh/)
	www.freeglossary.com /HMCS_Pictou (475 words)

	[No title]
		Concurrent with the decision to close the Collingwood Shipyard, a new marine technical company was created as a subsidiary of CSE Ltd. and is now based in Port Weller.
		The shipyard has also performed major refit and repair work on several DND Naval vessels since the 1960’s, including HMCS Haida, the last time she was in drydock.
		Since then, DND contracts have included refits to HMCS Nipigon in 1989 and 1994 and HMCS Terra Nova in 1993, and an Extended Life Program drydocking for HMCS Athabaskan in 1997.
	www.pwdd.com /index.php?screen=corporateoverview (1170 words)

	HMCS (?)Earl Grey
		An unusual scene photographed in the Autumn of 1914 is the accompanying picture of the ship's company of HMCS Earl Grey (despite the signboard, she was commissioned in the Royal Canadian Navy) taken around the time she was preparing to sail for for Archangel, Russia, where she was
		The government owned Constance and Curlew, which had been fitted-out as mineswepers in 1912, were commissioned in the RCN "as soon as war was declared" and there is a strong possibility that their sister Petrel was as well.
		We are informed by the official history of the Naval Service of Canada that she was a Canadian Government ice-breaker and a naval crew took her to Russia.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/earlgrey.htm (2193 words)

	Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RCNVR) Officers 1939-1945
		Joined the navy at HMCS York as Ordinary Seaman in 1939 after graduating from the University of Toronto and trained in Toronto in 1939 to 1940.
		He was then sent as an Ordinary Seaman (OD) to the RN to train at HMS Raleigh in Cornwall.
		One of the "Three Musketeers" from Vancouver (Ladner/Maitland) who joined at HMCS Discovery in September 1939.
	www.unithistories.com /officers/RCNVR_officers.html (912 words)

	[No title]
		Ships in question are the aircraft carrier Bearn, light cruiser Emile Bertin, training cruiser Jeanne d'Arc and auxiliary cruisers Esterelle, Quercy, and Barfleur; aircraft are 44 Curtiss SBC-4 Helldivers, 15 Curtiss H75-A4 Hawks (export version of USAAC P-36) and 6 Brewster Model B-339 fighters (export version of USN F2A Buffalo) delivered to Belgium.
		The basic agreement is that the French ships and aircraft will remain in Martinique throughout the war 1941 - Corvette HMCS Amherst commissioned 1941 - At 0150, 0154 & 0159, U-372 fired four torpedoes at Convoy SL-81 west of Ireland.
		Pictou suffered heavy damage to her stern and was under repair in Halifax until 20 Sep. Hindanger was sunk on 11 Sep 42 while she proceeding as part of the 34-ship Liverpool to New York City convoy ON-127 by U-584, Kptlt.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/august/05Aug.txt (983 words)

	Pictou Guestbook Archives Page 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pictou is 100% a summer and tourist town,
		But, his poor wife, an ugly girl until she put on all that showgirl makeup and a big hat, kicked herself on both sides of the head at the same time doing a chorus line behine Wayne Newton.
		Pictou's waterfront sure has changed since I was a little girl and for
	www.townofpictou.com /pages/guest5.html (6016 words)

	Battle of the Atlandic Dinner Speech, April 29, 1999
		In July of 1944, I was drafted to HMCS HOCHELAGA II as an Acting Stoker 1/c.
		Just before we left Quebec, HMCS MAGOG, missing her stern was towed back into the fitting-out basin near us.
		The last ship to be lost was the Bangor minesweeper, HMCS ESQUIMALT, sunk off Halifax approaches on April 16, 1945 with a loss of 44 out a crew of 71, five years after the loss of Ypres.
	www.islandnet.com /~jwmason/atlanticdinner.htm (1927 words)

	Tales from the Sea, Prince Edward Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The HMCS Assiniboine was one of the least dramatic shipwrecks of PEI with no loss of life.
		Sold for scrap metal, the vessel never made it to her final destination.
		During the sail, the steering rope severed, however, the crew from the boiler room managed to repair it but forgot to keep the boiler’s fires going.
	www.grouptourplanner.com /newsstory_64.cfm (307 words)

	History of Nova Scotia, Jan 1960 - Dec 1969
		In Ottawa, the Naval Board recalled the aircraft carrier HMCS Bonaventure and its escorts from Britain.
		Among his post-war career highlights was a 19-month stint in command of the aircraft carrier HMCS Magnificent 1951-53.
		Pictou Island is located in Northumberland Strait off Pictou County.
	www.alts.net /ns1625/nshist21.html (6600 words)

	Flower Class Corvettes
		HMCS Louisburg torpedoed by a/c off Oran on 6th February 1943
		HMCS Shawinigan sunk by U1228 in Cabot Strait on 24th November 1944
		HMCS Windflower lost in collision with SS Zypenberg off Newfoundland on 7th December 1941
	www.naval-art.com /corvettes.htm (977 words)

	Naval Museum of Manitoba - Canadian Naval History
		HMCS C. 1-100 - Minesweeper - Patrol Vessels
		HMCS FORT WILLIAM - BANGOR Class (41-42 Programme) Minesweeper
		HMCS GROU - RIVER Class 42-43 Programme Frigate
	www.naval-museum.mb.ca /cgi-bin/db_search.cgi?setup_file=rcnships.set (1991 words)

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