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[1] [2] The List of Royal Canadian Navy ships of the Second World War lists over 1,140 surface warships, submarines and auxiliary vessels in service during the war. It includes all commissioned, non-commissioned, loaned or hired ships, and all ships crewed by RCN personnel, including 30 depot ships (or " stone frigates "), under the command of ...
Although the Canadian government purchased and built thousands of military aircraft for use by the RCAF Home War Establishment (RCAF Eastern Air Command and RCAF Western Air Command) and the Canadian-based units of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, under the provisions of the plan Canada was to provide the training aircraft and ...
HMCS Prince Henry was an armed merchant cruiser and a landing ship infantry during World War II for the Royal Canadian Navy.The ship began service as the ocean liner SS Prince Henry for the Canadian National Steamship Company servicing ports along the Canadian British Columbia Coast and cities in the United States Northwest.
This list of ships of the Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes armed vessels that served during the war and in the immediate aftermath, inclusive of localized ongoing combat operations, garrison surrenders, post-surrender occupation, colony re-occupation, troop and prisoner repatriation, to the end of 1945.
Fort Á La Corne was built by North Vancouver Ship Repairs Ltd., North Vancouver, British Columbia, Dominion of Canada.She was completed on 13 August 1942. [2] Built for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT), she was placed under the management of McCowan & Cross Ltd. Torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea) by U-596 on 30 March
The 2nd Canadian Division, an infantry division of the Canadian Army, was mobilized for war service on 1 September 1939 at the outset of World War II.Adopting the designation of the 2nd Canadian Division, it was initially composed of volunteers within brigades established along regional lines, though a halt in recruitment in the early months of the war caused a delay in the formation of ...
World War II merchant ships of Canada (17 P) B. Barges of Canada (3 P) C. ... SS Canadian Constructor; SS Canadian Mariner; SS Cantabria (1919) City of New York (1885 ...
1st Canadian Armoured Brigade; 1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment; 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion; 1st Hussars; 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade; 3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment; No. 4 Casualty Clearing Station (Canada) 4 Field Ambulance (Canada) 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's) 8th Canadian Infantry Division; 12 (Vancouver ...