Navy Archives - Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com/category/canadian-military-history-in-perspective/navy/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:16:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://legionmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-favicon-LM-32x32.jpg Navy Archives - Legion Magazine https://legionmagazine.com/category/canadian-military-history-in-perspective/navy/ 32 32 Criminal intent https://legionmagazine.com/criminal-intent/ https://legionmagazine.com/criminal-intent/#respond Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:16:18 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=91697 The Great War attack on a Canadian hospital ship that helped set war crimes’ precedent

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/criminal-intent/feed/ 0 Light my way https://legionmagazine.com/light-my-way/ https://legionmagazine.com/light-my-way/#respond Mon, 06 Nov 2023 16:19:40 +0000 https://legionmagazine.com/?p=88434 Naval light signalling was an essential form of communications during the Second World War—and it may live on still

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/u-boat-man/feed/ 0 Operation Drumbeat https://legionmagazine.com/operation-drumbeat/ https://legionmagazine.com/operation-drumbeat/#respond Thu, 20 Jan 2022 20:36:36 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=74293 U-boats targeted East Coast shipping in the first half of 1942 In the early hours of Jan. 12, 1942, wireless stations around the North Atlantic picked up a distress call from the British passenger freighter, SS Cyclops. The 9,076-ton vessel with 181 people aboard was 230 kilometres southeast of Cape Sable, N.S., and had just been …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/operation-drumbeat/feed/ 0 The explosion that changed the Navy https://legionmagazine.com/the-explosion-that-changed-the-navy/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-explosion-that-changed-the-navy/#respond Sat, 23 Jan 2021 18:31:35 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=67474 An overheated gearbox on HMCS Kootenay set off a fire that took nine lives The worst peacetime disaster in Canadian naval history occurred on Oct. 23, 1969, when nine crew were killed and another 53 injured in an explosion and fire aboard HMCS Kootenay. The incident marked the last time Canadian service personnel were required …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-explosion-that-changed-the-navy/feed/ 0 Navy changes its junior ranks https://legionmagazine.com/navy-changes-its-junior-ranks/ https://legionmagazine.com/navy-changes-its-junior-ranks/#respond Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:15:24 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=66583 The Royal Canadian Navy has renamed its junior ranks to better reflect what its commander called the “ever-evolving international and domestic contexts in which we live and operate.” As part of that effort, the navy has dispensed with its ‘Seaman’ ranks, renaming them the gender-neutral ‘Sailor.’ Vice-Admiral Art McDonald, the navy commander, said the service’s …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/navy-changes-its-junior-ranks/feed/ 0 The overzealous skipper https://legionmagazine.com/the-overzealous-skipper/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-overzealous-skipper/#respond Sun, 03 May 2020 12:41:17 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=61970 When Nicholas Monserrat titled his classic account of the Battle of the Atlantic The Cruel Sea, it was no accident. Nearly half of the Royal Canadian Navy vessels lost in the Second World War succumbed to marine accidents. Patrol boat HMCS Adversus ran aground; destroyer HMCS Skeena dragged its anchor and stranded on the island of …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-overzealous-skipper/feed/ 0 War comes to Sydney Harbour https://legionmagazine.com/war-comes-to-sydney-harbour/ https://legionmagazine.com/war-comes-to-sydney-harbour/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2020 15:38:54 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=61297 Deserted and covered with graffiti for decades, the old concrete gun battery at Chapel Point in North Sydney on Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island was restored last summer as part of a local project to create a 48.5-hectare park devoted to Canada’s military history. The project, to be known as the Atlantic Memorial Park, is …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/war-comes-to-sydney-harbour/feed/ 2 The sinking of SS Athenia https://legionmagazine.com/the-sinking-of-ss-athenia/ https://legionmagazine.com/the-sinking-of-ss-athenia/#respond Fri, 30 Aug 2019 15:50:26 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=58420 Britain declared war on Germany at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 3, 1939. At just after 7 o’clock that evening, Captain James Cook of the passenger liner SS Athenia joined his first-class guests for dinner. While the ship had actually gotten underway two days earlier—en route from Glasgow to Montreal via Belfast and Liverpool—Cook had felt that …

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]]> https://legionmagazine.com/the-sinking-of-ss-athenia/feed/ 0 A quiet victory in the Gulf https://legionmagazine.com/a-quiet-victory-in-the-gulf/ https://legionmagazine.com/a-quiet-victory-in-the-gulf/#respond Wed, 17 May 2017 18:06:37 +0000 https://legionmagazine.wpengine.com/?p=41447 When Canada declared war on Germany in September 1939, the most immediate threat to the country was an attack on its shipping. That fear was so palpable that when periscopes were soon “sighted” in the St. Lawrence River, no one was surprised. A “submarine diviner” with a plumb-bob and a chart of the river was …

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