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Author : Mark Nelson
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459742802
From aback to ZizEX, the second edition of Jackspeak of the Royal Canadian Navy gives readers a chance to fill their boots with the colourful language of Canada’s senior service.
Author : Marc Milner
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081772282
Focuses on a series of bitter and tragic battles fought by the RCN in mid-Atlantic during the latter half of 1942. Events of those 6 months constituted the crisis of Canada's naval war. The fall-out from this crisis, its impact on the operational deployment of the fleet, and the violent upheaval it caused in Ottawa are key parts of this story. Portrays both Canada and the RCN as dynamic elements in the struggle for the convoys against the marauding U-boats of World War II.
Author : Marc Milner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802042813
A wide-ranging look at the history of the Canadian Navy, from its beginnings in 18th-century exploration and trade, to its astonishing expansion during the Second World War, through to its current roles in operations with United Nations and NATO forces.
Author : William Johnston,William G.P. Rawling,Richard H. Gimblett,John MacFarlane
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459713246
Commended for the 2011 Keith Matthews Award From its creation in 1910, the Royal Canadian Navy was marked by political debate over the countrys need for a naval service. The Seabound Coast, Volume I of a three-volume official history of the RCN, traces the story of the navys first three decades, from its beginnings as Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Lauriers tinpot navy of two obsolescent British cruisers to the force of six modern destroyers and four minesweepers with which it began the Second World War. The previously published Volume II of this history, Part 1, No Higher Purpose, and Part 2, A Blue Water Navy, has already told the story of the RCN during the 19391945 conflict. Based on extensive archival research, The Seabound Coast recounts the acrimonious debates that eventually led to the RCNs establishment in 1910, its tenuous existence following the Laurier governments sudden replacement by that of Robert Borden one year later, and the navys struggles during the First World War when it was forced to defend Canadian waters with only a handful of resources. From the effects of the devastating Halifax explosion in December 1917 to the U-boat campaign off Canadas East Coast in 1918, the volume examines how the RCNs task was made more difficult by the often inconsistent advice Ottawa received from the British Admiralty in London. In its final section, this important and well-illustrated history relates the RCNs experience during the interwar years when anti-war sentiment and an economic depression threatened the services very survival.
Author : James A. Boutilier
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774843461
This tribute to a proud service surveys the history of the Royal Canadian Navy from its inception in 1910 to its demise in 1968. Although established as a declaration of Canada's independence from the imperial fleet, the RCN was the child of the Royal Navy. Its first ships were RN cast-offs, and for the next forty years officers trained in the British fleet -- their 'big ship time.' From these modest beginnings, the book deals with such related issues as the problem of imperial defense, the development of a naval service with a Canadian identity, and the evolution of a Canadian naval engineering capacity.
Author : Jean E. Portugal
Publisher : Shelburne, Ont. : Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89066190067
Author : Richard H. Gimblett
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459713222
This highly illustrated commemorative volume chronicles the full century of the Canadian navy as a proud national institution. Comprehensive coverage includes the origins of the Canadian navy in 1867, both world wars, the Korean conflict, the postwar period, and a look at the navy of the future.
Author : Canada. Royal Canadian Navy,Gilbert Norman Tucker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:506084676
Author : Tony German
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018983067
Author : Donald E. Graves,Canadian Naval Memorial Trust
Publisher : Published for the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust by Robin Brass Studio
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119431760
This is the story of a forgotten fighting service. During the Second World War the Royal Canadian Navy expanded from a tiny force of ten warships in 1939 to the third largest Allied navy by 1945. The RCN's primary wartime role was convoy escort in the North Atlantic, and Canadian warships served in this grim theatre, where the weather was an enemy almost as dangerous as the U-boats, for nearly six years. In Peril on the Sea is the story of the Canadian navy and its important contribution to Allied victory in the Battle of the Atlantic -- the most crucial battle of the Second World War. Much of this fascinating saga is presented through the personal accounts of 65 eyewitnesses -- British, Canadian, German... sailors, submariners and merchant seamen -- who participated in the Second World War's longest operation. In Peril on the Sea contains nearly 200 photographs, drawings, maps, graphics and ship profiles which bring to life with compelling immediacy the grim but courageous struggle to preserve the sea lanes of freedom between 1939 and 1945. Commissioned by the Canadian Naval Memorial Trust and written by one of Canada's foremost historians, In Peril on the Sea will appeal to general and specialist readers alike. Book jacket.
Author : David Zimmerman
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774830379
The Royal Canadian Navy crews that sailed the Atlantic during the early Cold War held a contemptuous view of their West Coast brethren, likening the Pacific fleet to a “yacht club” where sailors enjoyed a life of leisurely service on a tranquil sea. As David Zimmerman reveals, nothing could be further from the truth. From the fleet’s postwar downsizing, through to its rapid expansion in the wake of the Korean War as Cold War fears gripped the nation, Maritime Command Pacific fought to hold steady amid drifting Japanese mines, Soviet submarines, and joint US-Canadian training exercises.
Author : Michael L. Hadley,Robert Neil Huebert,F. W. Crickard
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0773515062
Bounded by three great oceans, Canada stands as a maritime nation with rich seafaring traditions. Born of both national and British imperial interests in 1910 and maturing in two world wars, its navy is a vital national institution that continues to evolve in response to new and complex challenges. A Nation's Navy explores the decisive formative forces of the navy's history and illuminates the characteristically Canadian elements and values that have defined it.
Author : Cynthia Faryon
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781552778104
At the outbreak of World War II, the Royal Canadian Navy consisted of just 13 warships and about 3000 permanent and reserve members. By the war's end, however, it had grown into the third largest navy in the world, with 365 warships and more than 100,000 personnel. The men and women of the Royal Canadian Navy came from all corners of Canada to fight in the sea war against the enemy. Together, they exceeded even the highest expectations of their allies.
Author : Richard Howard Gimblett,Peter Trevor Haydon,Michael Jeffrey Whitby
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550025804
A biographical compendium of articles on the officers who led Canadas navy from 1910 to 1968.
Author : Bryan Elson
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781459503267
This book offers a fresh perspective on North American history, and the key role played by Halifax and Victoria in ensuring that Canada emerged as an independent country in the 20th century. Brian Elson focuses on the significance of the bases for the all-powerful British navy at Halifax and Victoria through the 19th century and the First World War. As he explains, Halifax gave the Royal Navy the land base they needed to project British power along the whole east Atlantic coast of North America. Victorias Esquimault did the same thing for the Pacific coast. During the 1800s the United States grew dramatically, adding huge swaths of lands west, south and north that had belonged to France, Spain, Mexico, and Russia while pushing aside native peoples. More than once the American government came into conflict with Britain over British territory in North America. There were threats of war and annexation, and American popular support for absorbing Canada was strong. In this book Bryan Elson shows how the British presence in Halifax, and later in Victoria, stood in the way of US designs on Canada. American leaders knew that the British Navy, with its bases on both coasts, had the power to cut them off from the rest of the world with a naval blockade. The American threat to Canada was effectively countered by the British presence in these two cities. The two bastions played their most important role in the early years of the First World War. As Bryan Elson explains, in 1914 the United States stood aside while the British Empire, including Canada, took on Germany. In this situation, the British navy including the Canadian navys first east coast warship mounted a show of force by stopping all incoming and outgoing traffic from the port of New York. This lasted until the US finally opted into the war, on the side of Britain, in 1917. Meanwhile, on the west coast the Equimault naval base was buttressed by the extraordinary action of the B.C. provincial government which at the start of the war bought two new submarines from a shipyard in Seattle for the fledgling Canadian navy.