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| 3422 | MACDONALD, Donald, & BATCHELOR, Ronald. HMCS Port Arthur. 24p., bibliog. [n.p.: n.p., c.1998].
A tribute to this corvette which had a busy and successful war from Torch to Neptune via the Atlantic battles. No copy seen. |
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| 3423 | MCKAY, John, & HARLAND, John. The Flower Class Corvette Agassiz (Anatomy of the Ship). 160p., bibliog., illus. London: Conway, 1993. ISBN: 0851776140.
Another of the series with full plans and design history of the classic corvette design. Operational history is limited to six short paragraphs. |
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| 3424 | MCKEE, Fraser. Armed Yachts of Canada. 175p., bibliog., illus., index. Erin, Ont.: Boston Mills, 1983. ISBN: 091982255X.
The illustrated story of 21 luxury yachts pressed into service in two world wars. Some 16 were used in coastal defence in WWII. |
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| 3425 | MCKEE, Fraser. HMCS Swansea: The Life and Times of a Frigate. 190p., bibliog., illus., index. Shrewsbury: Airlife; St. Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell, 1994. ISBN: 0920277896.
Swansea was involved in more U-boat kills - four - than any other RCN vessel. This is intended as a history of a typical RCN frigate. |
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| 3426 | MACPHERSON, Ken. Canada's Fighting Ships (Canadian War Museum, National Museum of Man. Historical Publication, 12). [10], 116p., illus., index. Toronto: Samuel Stevens Hakkert, 1975. ISBN: 0888665660.
A mainly pictorial view of Canadian warships which of necessity largely depicts WWII. The photographs are excellent. |
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| 3427 | MACPHERSON, Ken, & MILNER, Marc. Corvettes of the Royal Canadian Navy 1939–1945. 174p., illus., plan, index. St. Catharine's, Ont.: Vanwell, 1993. ISBN: 0920277837.
A heavily illustrated guide to the mainstay of the wartime RCN. |
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| 3428 | MACPHERSON, Ken. Frigates of the Royal Canadian Navy 1943–1974. 109p., bibliog., illus. St. Catharine's, Ont.: Vanwell Publishing, 1989. ISBN: 0920277225.
A well-illustrated ship-by-ship account of the war-built frigates. |
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| 3429 | MACPHERSON, Ken. Minesweepers of the Royal Canadian Navy 1938–1945. 110p., bibliog., illus., index. St. Catharine's, Ont.: Vanwell Publishing, 1990. ISBN: 0920277225.
A fully illustrated ship-by-ship account of a group which were the workhorses of the local escort of convoys. |
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| 3430 | MACPHERSON, Ken. The River Class Destroyers of the Royal Canadian Navy. 103p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: Mussen, 1985. ISBN: 0920845002.
A fully illustrated ship by ship operational history of the 14 Canadian C-H Class destroyers. A revised and updated edition was published by Vanwell in 2008 (ISBN: 1551250934) with Keith Butterley named as joint author. |
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| 3431 | MACPHERSON, Ken, & BURGESS, John. The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910–1981: A Complete Pictorial History of Canadian Warships. 240p., bibliog., illus., index. Toronto: Collins, 1981. ISBN: 0002168561. Arranged in three sections: pre-war, WWII, post-war. Within this framework the arrangement is by class, with a picture of at least the major vessels and potted biographies. Extensive appendices. A second edition was published in 1985 (ISBN: 0002174693) and a third in 1993 (ISBN: 0920277918) . The fourth edition takes the story up to 2002 and was published by Vanwell (ISBN: 1551250721). Ron Barrie was co-author of this edition. |
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| 3432 | MARGISON, John E. HMCS Sackville: 1942–1943 Memories As Gunnery Officer. xiv, 101p., illus. Cobalt, Ont.: Highway Bookshop, 1998. ISBN: 0889544050.
This book describes life on one of the busy Atlantic based corvettes, which was part of the famous "Barber Pole" Escort Group, so named for the red and white stripes painted on their funnels. |
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| 3433 | MEYERS, Edward C. Tribal Class Destroyers of the Royal Canadian Navy 1942-1963. 83p., illus. Victoria, BC: Trafford, 2006. ISBN: 1412085721.
A slim pamphlet recording the class alphabetically by name with a brief account of their doings. |
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| 3434 | MILNER, Marc. HMCS Sackville 1941-1985. 96p., illus. Halifax, NS: The Canadian Naval Memorial Trust, 1998. ISBN: 0968366104.
Sackville is now preserved in Halifax, the only survivor of the 123 Canadian corvettes which served in World War II. A leading Canadian historian gives a full account of her active career and how she reached her new status as a museum. |
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| 3435 | NIXON, C. P. A River in September: A Sketch of the Life and Times of HMCS Chaudière, a Canadian Destroyer, 1943–1945, as Told by Her Captain. 25p. Montreal: Mappin, 1995.
A very brief account of her busy war. |
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| 3436 | OUTERBRIDGE, L.M. H.M.S. Puncher. 128p., illus., index. Regina: author, 1946.
Edited by the ship's chaplain this is a largely photographic record of her war in 1944-45. She served briefly but with distinction from the Mediterranean to the Arctic. |
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| 3437 | RILEY, Kenneth. Nene Lives: The Story of HMCS Nene and Her Crew. [iv],126p., illus. [n.p.: n.p., 1993].
The frigate transferred from the RN to the RCN and served principally in the Atlantic and Arctic. The first half of the book is essentially a series of anecdotes from survivors, while the second has potted biographies of the crew. It was compiled for a reunion. |
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| 3438 | RUSSELL, E. C. HMCS Haida: a Brief History.56p., illus. Toronto: [n.p.], 1964. An operational history, half of it describing WWII, of the destroyer which served with distinction for 20 years. A second edition of this leaflet was published in about 1997 with substantially the same text but different photographs. |
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| 3439 | SCLATER, William. Haida. xvi, 221p., illus. Toronto: OUP, [1947].
A dramatised account of the career of one of the most famous of RCN ships. A Tribal Class destroyer, she won fame from the Murmansk run to the Channel battles of 1944. |
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| 3440 | UNGER, Isaac. Skeena Aground. x, 115p. bibliog., illus. Winnipeg, Man.: 1992. ISBN: 0969650000.
She was tragically lost when dragged on to rocks off Iceland in atrocious weather. |
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| 3441 | VENIER, Mark Richard. Ready the Brave! A Chronicle in the Wake of HMCS Huron Volume 1: 1943–46. 448p., illus., index. Woodstock, Ont.: HMCS Huron Association, 1989. ISBN: 1550561383.
A logbook-cum-picture book which includes newspaper cuttings and other contemporary accounts of this Canadian Tribal. |
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