Canadian Navy
Canadian Navy
Hi All,
So what is your attitude towards the Canadian Navy during WW2, we lost some good ships like the Athabasca even though we didn't have mighty warships like the British and Germans, americans, Italians, Japanese, we might have been equal to Russia.
Ron Clark
So what is your attitude towards the Canadian Navy during WW2, we lost some good ships like the Athabasca even though we didn't have mighty warships like the British and Germans, americans, Italians, Japanese, we might have been equal to Russia.
Ron Clark
Re: Canadian Navy
The RCN doesn't get much respect. The RN turned up its collective nose at the performance of Canadian anti-submarine units, and efforts beyond that scope are often ignored, as apparent in the title of a master's thesis I was just looking at: The “Other” Navy at War: The RCN’s Tribal Class Destroyers, 1939-1944.
I'm cheating here but the RCN did have an aircraft carrier completed just after WW2
http://www.voodoo.cz/ww2car/can.html
http://www.voodoo.cz/ww2car/can.html
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Canadian Navy
We never built an aircraft carrir, we bought one off the British, renamed it from the Magnicent to the Bonaventure and eventually it landed in a Japanese scrap yard. We don't have any now
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Canadians did more for the war effort than many other countries which much more publicity. As far as I know during June 6th, 1944 the blood in the Normandy beaches was from Americans, British, Canadians and Germans.
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Many merchant ships sailed from Canada bound for Britain packed with vital supplies.
Many brave Canadian sailors, soldiers and Airmen fought and died in WW2.
We British would have found it very tough going without our Canadian pals
Many brave Canadian sailors, soldiers and Airmen fought and died in WW2.
We British would have found it very tough going without our Canadian pals
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Re: Canadian Navy
The Canadian fleet was continuously and heavily engaged in Canadian and Newfoundland home waters, as well as in protecting the by-then enormous transatlantic convoys that fed supplies to the Allied armies in Europe. This was an essential military contribution to the Allied cause. Moreover, the navy maintained its commitments in British and European coastal waters and also escorted convoys to the Soviet Union along the treacherous and unforgiving Arctic route.Despite the turn of the tide, the German submarine fleet continued to strike effectively. Indeed, during 1944 and 1945, the Canadian fleet took its heaviest losses in action against submarines using sophisticated evasion tactics and armed with powerful new types of torpedoes.
Among the ships destroyed by snorkel-equipped U-boats were the corvette HMCS Shawinigan, which was lost with no survivors among its crew of 91, close off Port Aux Basques, Newfoundland on the night of 24 November 1944, the Bangor minesweeper HMCS Claycquot, in the near approaches to Halifax on Christmas Eve 1944, and HMCS Esquimalt another Bangor lost off Halifax, on 16 April 1945, only three weeks before Germany surrendered. Both Bangors sank with heavy loss of life, many of the sailors falling victim to the lethally cold waters off Nova Scotia.
By the last months of the war the RCN had grown to a strength of over 95,000 personnel, 6,000 of them members of the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service, and the fleet committed to the Battle of the Atlantic included some 270 ocean escort warships. Canada possessed the third-largest navy in the world after the fleets of the United States and Britain. The most important measure of its success was the safe passage during the war of over 25,000 merchant ships under Canadian escort. These cargo vessels delivered nearly 165 million tons of supplies to Britain and to the Allied forces that liberated Europe.
In the course of these operations the RCN sank, or shared in the destruction, of 31 enemy submarines. For its part, the RCN lost 14 warships to U-boat attacks and another eight ships to collisions and other accidents in the north Atlantic. Most of the 2000 members of the Royal Canadian Navy who lost their lives died in combat in the Atlantic. Proportionally, Canadian merchant seamen suffered much more heavily, losing one in ten killed among the 12,000 who served in Canadian and Allied merchant vessels.
Among the ships destroyed by snorkel-equipped U-boats were the corvette HMCS Shawinigan, which was lost with no survivors among its crew of 91, close off Port Aux Basques, Newfoundland on the night of 24 November 1944, the Bangor minesweeper HMCS Claycquot, in the near approaches to Halifax on Christmas Eve 1944, and HMCS Esquimalt another Bangor lost off Halifax, on 16 April 1945, only three weeks before Germany surrendered. Both Bangors sank with heavy loss of life, many of the sailors falling victim to the lethally cold waters off Nova Scotia.
By the last months of the war the RCN had grown to a strength of over 95,000 personnel, 6,000 of them members of the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service, and the fleet committed to the Battle of the Atlantic included some 270 ocean escort warships. Canada possessed the third-largest navy in the world after the fleets of the United States and Britain. The most important measure of its success was the safe passage during the war of over 25,000 merchant ships under Canadian escort. These cargo vessels delivered nearly 165 million tons of supplies to Britain and to the Allied forces that liberated Europe.
In the course of these operations the RCN sank, or shared in the destruction, of 31 enemy submarines. For its part, the RCN lost 14 warships to U-boat attacks and another eight ships to collisions and other accidents in the north Atlantic. Most of the 2000 members of the Royal Canadian Navy who lost their lives died in combat in the Atlantic. Proportionally, Canadian merchant seamen suffered much more heavily, losing one in ten killed among the 12,000 who served in Canadian and Allied merchant vessels.
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