Royal Canadian Navy

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    On This Date: May 2012

    May 1, 2012 by admin
    MAY 1, 1961: 415 Maritime Patrol Squadron is formed at Summerside, P.E.I. The unit will fly the Argus anti-submarine/marine patrol aircraft. MAY 2, 1957: The Royal Canadian Air Force receives its first delivery of the Canadair CP-107. The Argus is the most advanced anti-submarine aircraft of...
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    Sub Ojibwa to be main exhibit in new naval museum on Lake Erie

    January 10, 2012 by Sharon Adams
    The decks have been cleared for HMCS Ojibwa to be donated to a new regional naval museum on Lake Erie at Port Burwell, Ont. HMCS Ojibwa was the first of Canada’s Oberon-class submarines, launched in February 1964. She served the Royal Canadian Navy with Maritime...
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    Cutthroat Careerism: Navy, Part 36

    December 18, 2009 by Marc Milner
    Rear-Admiral L.W. Murray (left) speaks with sailors at St. John’s, Nfld., in 1942. PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA115347 The first months of Newfoundland Escort Force operations were trying. The rapidly expanding Royal Canadian Navy was confronted with the harsh realities of both war and the...
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    A Sad State Of Affairs: Navy, Part 34

    August 20, 2009 by Marc Milner
      HMCS Lévis, shortly after being torpedoed in September 1941. PHOTOS: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA136257 The convoy battles of late 1941 were a defining moment for the Royal Canadian Navy, and the outcome was not good. The confusion over Allied priorities, the navy’s push to...
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    The Fate Of Slow Convoy 42: Navy, Part 33

    June 18, 2009 by Marc Milner
    Personnel man a gun on board HMCS St. Croix in March 1941. PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA105295 The division of Allied labour worked out in August 1941 for operations on the North Atlantic made perfect sense. Fifty destroyers of the United States Atlantic Fleet’s Support...