Bordered by three oceans, Canada's Navy has always needed ships and crew who could brave the harshest of seas to enforce her sovereignty and protect her freedom... they are the Tin-Can Canucks and this book is about them.
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Tin-Can Canucks: HMCS Athabascan (II)
Posted by S.D. Campbell on September 8, 2016 September 8, 2016
Built by Halifax Shipyard Ltd., she was the last of the Canadian-built Tribals to complete, and the last Canadian Tribal to commission, entering the RCN in 1948—three years after the end of the war she had been designed to fight.
Tin-Can Canucks: HMCS Assiniboine (II)
Posted by S.D. Campbell on April 15, 2016 April 19, 2016
When Marine Industries Ltd. of Sorel, Quebec delivered HMCS Assiniboine (II) to the Royal Canadian Navy it was the first post-war warship built by that yard for the RCN which subsequently commissioned her the 16th of August 1956.
Tin-Can Canucks: HMCS Ottawa (I)
Posted by S.D. Campbell on March 28, 2016 April 1, 2016
The first Canadian destroyer to carry the name HMCS Ottawa was launched as HMS Crusader at Portsmouth Naval Dockyard in 1931. Like her sister HMS Comet (later HMCS Restigouche) she was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1932 and assigned to the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla of the British Home Fleet.
Tin-Can Canucks: HMCS Gatineau (I)
Posted by S.D. Campbell on February 26, 2016 February 26, 2016
Unique amongst the Canadian River-class destroyers, HMCS Gatineau—built as HMS Express by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Wallsend-on-Tyne—had been originally fitted as a minesweeper, and had twin sponsoons aft for the mine rails (never carried in Canadian service). She would be the sole E-Class destroyer to serve in the RCN.
Tin-Can Canucks: HMCS Buxton
HMCS Buxton began life as USS Edwards. She was built by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at their Squantum, Massachusetts shipyard and named after Midshipman William W. Edwards. Edwards was an officer of the US Navy during the War of 1812 assigned to USS Argus when he was killed in action against HMS Pelican 14 August 1913. The ship bearing his name was launched 10 October 1918 by Ms. Julia Edwards Noyes, Midshipman Edwards uncle's great granddaughter. USS Edwards was commissioned on April 24, 1919 under the command of Commander P.L. Wilson.
Prelude to the Tin-Can Canucks: HMCS Grilse (I)
Posted by S.D. Campbell on February 18, 2016 April 23, 2017
Only five years old, and facing the prospect of German U-boats in Canadian waters—and without destroyers for protection—the Royal Canadian Navy set about acquiring private yachts for use as patrol and escort vessels. One of these was a 202 foot steam turbine yacht by the name of Winchester. To avoid running up against the American's neutrality, several Canadian yacht owners privately purchased boats from Americans and then traded them to the RCN. This is the manner in which Grisle came to fly the white ensign in 1915.
Tales of the Tin-Can Canucks
Posted by S.D. Campbell on February 8, 2016 February 26, 2016
The Royal Canadian Navy celebrated it's centenary in 2010. In 2014 the RCN celebrated 100 years of Canadian Submarines. Coming up in 2020 it will be 100 years since the commissioning of Canada's first Destroyers HMCS Patriot and HMCS Patrician. It will be the centenary of Tin Cans (destroyers) and Tin Can Canucks (destroyer sailors) in the Canadian Navy.
Tin-Can Canucks
A Century of Canadian Destroyers
Tin-Can Canucks: A Century of Canadian Destroyers
Bomber Command Museum of Canada Book Signing Cadillac of Destroyers Canadian Naval Review Canadian War Museum Cold War Destroyers Cover Art Design Ink Editing Gerard Campbell HMCS Assiniboine HMCS Athabascan HMCS Grilse HMCS Yukon ISBN Library and Archives Canada Military History Production Recruitment River-Class Destroyer Royal Canadian Navy Town-Class Destroyer Tribal-Class Destroyer WCRMC World War One World War Two Writing
Tin-Can Canucks Book Signing on June 10
Tin-Can Canucks: Now on Sale
Tin-Can Canucks: HMCS Yukon
Production: Judging a Book by its Cover Art
Production: When the Writing is Done
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