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unusual facts about HMCS


R. v. Perka

A call went the Canadian Forces which dispatched the destroyer HMCS Qu'Appelle.


CSS Acadia

CSS Acadia was commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy in January 1917 as a patrol vessel, replacing the CSS prefix with HMCS, thus becoming HMCS Acadia.

HMCS Bras d'Or

HMCS Bras d'Or is a name used by the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Forces MARCOM for several ships, named after Bras d'Or Lake.

HMCS Carleton

On 17 December 1943 HMCS Carleton moved to its current facilities at Canadian Forces Reserve Barrack Dow's Lake, when the new "stone frigate" was inaugurated in the presence of Major General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, Governor General of Canada.

HMCS Patriot

In September, 1921, HMCS Patriot assisted Dr. Alexander Graham Bell's hydrofoil research by towing his high speed experimental hydrofoil HD-4.

HMCS Prevost

In August 1949 one 112 foot Fairmile, HMCS Racoon, converted to diesel power, replaced the two Harbor Craft.

HMCS Prevost is a Naval Reserve unit commissioned Her Majesty's Canadian Ship, of the Canadian Forces Naval Reserve based in London, Ontario.

HMCS Prevost is properly referred to as a ship, since it has been officially christened as Her Majesty's Canadian Ship.

HMCS Raccoon

HMCS Raccoon was an armed yacht that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II.

HMCS Unicorn

HMCS Unicorn is a shore-based Naval Reserve Division of the Royal Canadian Navy based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

HMCS York

Rigid Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) are deployed at the base, but the docking facilities to the south of HMCS York belong to the National Yacht Club of Toronto for private vessels.

Naval Museum of Halifax

From 1925 to 1954 it became part of the Royal Canadian Navy base HMCS Stadacona, serving as a Wardroom Officer's Mess and later as office space.


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