Tally-Ho… An unhappy Valentine ’s Day for the UIT – 23

Many of my early days of submarining were spent in and around areas that are considered choke points for global navigation. Without revealing too many details, the hunting near certain places has always been richer because of the availability of certain vessels of interest.The Bluejackets manual I received in Boot Camp at Great Lakes Illinois provided the […]

The Last Battle

HMCS Sackville is the last remaining Canadian-built Corvette. She is the oldest Canadian warship and its official Navy Memorial since 1985. She represents some of the greatest sacrifices of the war for the Canadian forces. In all 4,600 sailors, merchant seamen, RCAF and Canadian Army personnel gave their lives in the North Atlantic. Canada lost […]