K143 was my father's ship. It was the first Canadian naval vessel sunk in the Mediterranean. He went down with it while it was escorting a convoy to North Africa on Feb. 6, 1943. It was attacked by aircraft of the "axis" and received an aerial torpedo amidships. Since my father was an engine room artificer, he was not able to abandon ship.
@TheCjcoon
3 жыл бұрын
My great grandfather said he was a cook on a Canadian submarine but that's all he ever told any one but his wife.
@fergusmallon1337
3 жыл бұрын
My heartfelt sympathies. A lad needs a dad. War is a very personal thing.
@noele6588
2 жыл бұрын
Uncle was XO on the Sackville, was on their this week, he is in the crew pic on port side behind the head
@exJacktar
11 жыл бұрын
I'm a present day sailor in the RCN. Thanks for posting this video.
@kleinjahr
3 жыл бұрын
Ready, Aye Ready.
@exJacktar
3 жыл бұрын
@@keithwatson1384 sadly, they've gone and PC'd the lower deck ranks by replacing "seaman" with "sailor". Leading Sailor instead of Leading Seaman (for example) just sounds stupid to my ears. Glad I've retired.
@ceayonjohnston4368
3 жыл бұрын
@@exJacktar it was changed cause they didny wanna be called cum anymore 😂
@LuckyShitZu
6 жыл бұрын
My grandfather served in the Canadian navy and my dad in the Merchant navy. Thank you!
@Conn30Mtenor
7 ай бұрын
My father was one of those men. He served on HMCS Moose Jaw, Saskatoon and Huntsville. He was supposed to transfer to HMCS Shawinigan, who was lost in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with all hands. He was lucky.
@jerryswallow
3 жыл бұрын
MY COUSIN, THE LAST CANADIAN SAILOR KILLED IN THE BATTLE OF ATLANTIC APRIL 45, SUNK THE ESQUILMALT BY U-190 JUST OFF HALIFAX HARBOUR..RIP HUNTLY
@Haerton
8 жыл бұрын
Wow, a video on the RCN; doubt if anything to do with the CBC. Numerous numerous videos for US and UK. Zip for Canada.
@fergusmallon1337
3 жыл бұрын
The National film board has many excellent doccumentaries
@kenmazoch8499
11 жыл бұрын
True they don't talk much about the corvettes or minesweepers much in this documentary, but It was trying to cover the whole war in a half-hour show. They were mentioned, but the destroyers were always considered more glamorous and more filmable by filmmakers. But, all in all, they did a pretty good job of paying tribute to the Canadian Navy.
@ArcticuKitsu
9 жыл бұрын
Interesting video. Reading the comments also is worthwhile with respect needing to be shown all around; Corvettes, merchants, warships & others. Never did mention HMCS Uganda/Quebec & HMCS Ontario also being the two light cruisers that boosted Canada's naval power that much more. Same with HMCS Magnificant & HMCS Warrior. HMCS Uganda was sent to the pacific, as was HMCS Ontario. Canada received their new bigger toys a bit too late to the party. Nice documentary though. Very informative that I'm happy to have heard of the three AMC Prince ships.
@fergusmallon1337
3 жыл бұрын
They didn't mention HMCS Haida either
@michaelb9529
2 жыл бұрын
@@fergusmallon1337 Total shame HMCS Haida was one of the most successful ships on the allied side.
@cinnygames
11 жыл бұрын
My Social Studies 11 teacher presented this video in class last week. Good film :)
@Acc0rd79
11 ай бұрын
Great video! Maybe there is one of the Canadian Submarines or actions took in the Pacific theater of war.
@williamhemmings2879
Жыл бұрын
When I served there were still many who has served during WWII. As one told me, he tried to join the RCN in September ‘39 but the navy wasn’t ready to take in the many they needed. So he enlisted in The Black Watch and had to wait a number of months until he was able to transfer.
@nickdanger3802
2 жыл бұрын
"The Americans were also prepared to pay for warship construction in Canada for the British, and the Canadian government-itself strapped for U.S. dollars-committed its ‘surplus’ productive capacity to meet the need." "By December 1941, HMCS Arrowhead, Bittersweet, Eyebright, Mayflower and Snowberry were in American yards having their forecastles extended and modern radar installed." Legion magazine the-sheep-dog-navy-navy-part-39 on line
@melikgibsson5539
7 жыл бұрын
Heros, Heros and Heros. Thanks.
@johnavast5939
2 жыл бұрын
Ty to all these brave men! We will never forget!
@ezzz42
9 жыл бұрын
the REAL hero's were the merchant mariners! there the Rodney Dangerfields of the war, had the highest ratio of casualties but get no respect!
@snowballcorners
9 жыл бұрын
ezzz42 amen
@dooglelgood
8 жыл бұрын
No, they did get the respect of the RN and RCN sailors that escorted them.
@TheCjcoon
3 жыл бұрын
Hello I'm finding it hard to get info on Canadian submarines in ww2! My great grandfather said he was a cook on one but all I can find on line is 2 captured u boats that were used then destroyed! But I cant find a crew list so I can see what u-boat my grandpa was serving in for Canada in ww2.
@michaelb9529
2 жыл бұрын
He may have served on a British Sub manned by Canada. RN had several ships manned by Canadians HMS Nabob for example
@MrHeadshot1982
7 жыл бұрын
Canadian don,t get any credit we did a lot for ww1 and ww2.
@saltyroe3179
7 жыл бұрын
my dad has lots of respect for the Canadian Corvettes that escorted his liberty ship accross the Atlantic. He is alive because those Corvettes protected US Merchant Marine ships
@saltyroe3179
7 жыл бұрын
my dad has lots of respect for the Canadian Corvettes that escorted his liberty ship accross the Atlantic. He is alive because those Corvettes protected US Merchant Marine ships
@davidmcintyre998
7 жыл бұрын
I am British Bud and believe me am well aware of Canadian sacrifice,effort and courage.
@Jon908584
5 жыл бұрын
Bud Morse You couldn't be more wrong. The Canucks are highly regarded and respected in the UK as fighting men and their contribution to the Allied cause. It is true that they often got the shitty end of the stick.The sacrifice made at Dieppe is but one example. Canadian army units formed part of the left flank of the invading forces during Operation Overlord where the major German forces were positioned, having been wrong footed into believing that we would land in the Calais area. It is worth noting that the Canucks made a timely conjunction with the UK and Commonwealth forces unlike a neighbour of theirs who have been late in arriving to participate in two World Wars. Maybe Canada has nor received the plaudits and recognition that they deserved because unlike others they, and we, do not take our film industry to war and very little footage was shot and that that was not made open to the public view.
@keithwatson1384
5 жыл бұрын
Anyone who knows anything about the battle of the Atlantic knows the pivotal role the canucks played in keeping England alive! We would of lost the war without those vital convoys!
@nickdanger3802
2 жыл бұрын
By the summer of 1942, 35 per cent of merchant ship convoy escorts operating between Newfoundland and Great Britain were RCN. During the last six months of that year the full weight of German U-boat wolf-pack operations fell on them. In November and December alone 80 per cent of ships hit by torpedoes in transatlantic convoys were under Canadian escort. At the end of 1942 the British formally requested that Canadian escort groups with the Mid-Ocean Escort Force (MOEF) be withdrawn from the North Atlantic Run for re-equipping and retraining. Legion Magazine Trying To Stay Ahead Of The Pack page
@RogerinKC
10 жыл бұрын
I was hiking in the woods one day and swear I saw a Canadian... no one believes me though :(
@MapleBalls
11 жыл бұрын
Nice Video
@dougayers5441
9 жыл бұрын
united we will win! a men.
@randymarsh7473
8 жыл бұрын
Did Canada have the 3rd largest navy after ww2?
@dooglelgood
8 жыл бұрын
Yes, in terms of numbers of ships in service. In perspective, with the removal of Axis naval powers, who else was there? One number I have heard or read of is that approximately 100,000 sailors were in the RCN at the end of the war, at a time when Canada had a population of approximately 14 million. That's over 0.7%. That doesn't seem huge, but it is. Most people knew of somebody who served in the RCN.
@rpm1796
7 жыл бұрын
A process of elimination.
@goldbug7127
3 жыл бұрын
@@rpm1796 Screw You. We built the ships, manned them and took the fight to the enemy, dying as we did it. We weren't attacked and we weren't drafted. We didn't join a war, we were there from the start. Who are you to belittle my country's, my father's bravery?
@fergusmallon1337
3 жыл бұрын
@@goldbug7127 Well said. And we were in from the very beginning
@goldbug7127
3 жыл бұрын
@Bob Watters How can you say that securing shipping lines, the lifeblood of the entire war effort, was not a decisive naval battle? Our "inflated" view of the RCN comes from the widows and mothers whose loved ones lie at the bottom of the ocean. Men who volunteered long before the Allies could report a single battlefield victory, Men who volunteered when defeat and death seemed more likely than even containing the Nazi juggernaut. It's America who has an inflated view of their part in WWII. By New Year's Day 1942, Rommels foothold in North Africa was untenable, the Soviets had learned how to defeat the blitzkrieg, the RAF had defeated the Luftwaffe, and the Canadians were in charge of the Atlantic between Maine and Iceland, but America had only been shedding blood for three weeks. America's military might was indeed overwhelming, but the war in Europe had already been won before any bombs fell at Pearl Harbor.
@kevallica1
Жыл бұрын
What is the name of the song 17 minutes?
@spacerazer
3 жыл бұрын
Was part of Quens Colour Honour Guard 1979.
@borninjordan7448
Жыл бұрын
@12:43. The mighty hood.
@snottydyck
8 жыл бұрын
H83 St Laurent. My father's ship.
@IronHorseman
8 жыл бұрын
Canada had the 2nd largest Navy in the World at the end of World War 2 with 373 ships of all types, except Battle Ships.
@luminous6520
8 жыл бұрын
3rd.
@overdaedgebroadcasting2220
8 жыл бұрын
4th you mean yup 4th and has been discussed and proven by a historian thats Canadian lmao.
@99accordowner22
7 жыл бұрын
Iron Horseman battleships are big and slow and powerful
@lifehacks1013
7 жыл бұрын
japanese yamato was the 2nd..
@keithwatson1384
5 жыл бұрын
So the commonwealth combined with the Brits, Aussies etc was probably the biggest??
@99accordowner22
7 жыл бұрын
yep
@sontungle2641
5 жыл бұрын
They kill 2 U-Boat haha 😂😂.
@g.w.k.y6869
5 жыл бұрын
Shouldn't there be an s in u-boat? Cause your lack of grammer kills 2 brain cells haha
@TheCjcoon
3 жыл бұрын
Man that other guy is rude. Anyway the navy sank 29 u-boats and captured 2. My great grandfather was a cook one of Canadians captured or bought subs. He never talked about it, he just said he cooked on a submarine.
@goldbug7127
3 жыл бұрын
On Christmas eve, 1944, my father's ship, a corvette, which was really an armed coastal trawler, chased a U-boat after it attacked their convoy. They hunted it, alone, throughout Christmas day and at dusk on Boxing day, forced it to the surface and sunk it with their forward deck gun. They rescued 18 sailors from the North Atlantic and shared Christmas Dinner with them. One of them, "a young boy", my father said, sang Christmas carols for them all in German. He also sang 'Lille Marlene'. We had a 78 rpm record of it, and sometimes, at Christmas, when we were alone, he would ask me to play it. He would look deep into his memories and cry while Marlena Dietrich did her magic. Find somebody to thank for your freedom, today. haha, my ass.
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