Nautical Research Journal 15


Figure 6 (June 1945): Chicoutimi decommissioning at Sydney, Nova Scotia. T e 4-inch gun is gone, as are the mess deck vent cowls and one of the 20-millimeter gun shields. Shortly aſt er, Chicoutimi would make its last voyage under tow to Sorel and the War Assets Corporation.


over and re-armed by the People’s Republic in 1948. Tillsonburg served the Nationalist Chinese Navy.


Seventeen ex-RCN corvettes were sold to South American navies. Venezuela bought


seven, Chile


three, Uruguay one, and six went to the Dominican Republic. By 1979 only two, Louisburg II and Lachute, remained. Negotiations to have them repatriated to Canada were underway when they were both blown ashore and wrecked by Hurricane David.


By 1980 there was only one ship leſt of Canada’s wartime fl eet of 123 corvettes: Sackville. In 1944, shortly aſt er being modernized in Galveston, Texas the #1 boiler failed. T ere was no point in undertaking the enormous task of replacing the Scotch boiler at that point in the war, so Sackville became a training ship and was later re-fi tted as a loop layer. T e #1 boiler room became the cable tank, and the 4-inch gun was replaced by the winch and other equipment necessary for the new task. In this role Sackville


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