Vol. 65, No. 1 spring 2020
16 removed the seabed cable sensor loops off Canada’s east coast harbours. T is post-war use meant the ship
was assigned to the reserve fl eet. During the cold war Sackville became an oceanographic survey ship, a naval auxiliary manned by civilians. To carry out this new work a laboratory was fi tted over the engine room casing, the fo’c’s’le extended further aſt , and the bridge replaced. Sackville was fi nally retired in 1982 aſt er forty-one years of Atlantic service.
T e Government of Canada dedicated Sackville in May 1983 as the Canadian Naval Memorial. By 1985, the seventy-fi ſt h anniversary of the RCN, Sackville had been returned to its 1944 confi guration following modernization, incorporating all the improvements made to the original fi ſt y-four Canadian corvettes during the war. T e ship is open to the public during the summer months, berthed next to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic at Halifax. Its custodians are the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust. T eir website is
www.http//
hmcssackville.ca.
HMCS Chicoutimi
My father-in-law served for a time aboard HMCS Chicoutimi, so for me this was the obvious subject when I decided to model a corvette. Chicoutimi shows off the original corvette design built in Canada: short fo’c’s’le ships that performed all the unglamorous duties of convoy escort on the North Atlantic and around the east coast. Chicoutimi was one of fi ve corvettes that was never modernized so epitomizes the corvettes that went to war in 1941. With untrained crews and inadequate weapons they carried the brunt of the war during the years when no other ships were available. Chicoutimi was built by Canadian Vickers Ltd. in Montreal, Quebec; launched on October 16, 1940, commissioned May 12, 1941, paid off on June 16, 1945, and broken up at Hamilton, Ontario in 1946. Six photographs illustrate Chicoutimi’s evolution during its brief career.
Bibliography
Easton, Alan, 50 North, An Atlantic Battleground. London: Eyre & Spottiswood, 1963.
Lamb, James, Corvette Navy. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1977.
Lawrence, Hal, A Bloody War. Agincourt, Ontario: Gage Educational Publishing, 1979.
Macpherson, Ken and Marc Milner, Corvettes of the Royal Canadian Navy 1939-1945. St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing, 1993.
McKay, John and John Harland, T e Flower Class Corvette Agassiz. St. Catharines, Ontario: Vanwell Publishing, 1993.
Milner, Marc, North Atlantic Run, T e RCN and the Battle for the Convoys. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1985.
Schull, Joseph, T e Far Distant Ships. Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1987.
Bruce LeCren retired in 2006 aſt er 33 years with Canada’s Air Traffi c Services system. His professional qualifi cations include Electronic Technologist and Adult Educator. Bruce has had a lifetime interest in nautical history. He has contributed articles to magazines and professional journals, including “St. Roch: Master of the North” for Ships in Scale. He has donated HMCS Chicoutimi to a naval museum; his next project will be a model of R.C.M.P. St. Roch. Bruce resides in Beaumont, Alberta with his wife Dale and their two dogs.
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