Marc Milner

Until the spring of 1941, the Royal Canadian Navy had no clear indication that it would find its calling in the broad reaches of the

On June 26, 1940, just two days after France formally surrendered to Germany, the first Canadian-built Flower-class corvette, His Majesty’s Ship Trillium, slipped into the

Few warships epitomize the Atlantic war more than the lowly Flower-class corvette. An auxiliary vessel hastily built to mercantile standards and pushed into service by

Contrary to what some historians suggest, the Royal Canadian Navy’s ambitious plans in late 1940 for a navy built around fleet-class destroyers and cruisers were

By the summer of 1940 the Atlantic littoral of Europe was in the hands of the dominant land power of the age, and its army

PHOTOS: ALFRED TATE, LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA166880; LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA104238 From top: A view from HMCS Ottawa, 1940; officers and crew aboard HMCS Saguenay,