While escorting an eastbound convoy, HMCS Sackville engages three U-boats in a 36 hour period. In the foggy weather, Lieut. Alan Easton and his crew seriously damaged one submarine, hitting another with 4-inch gunfire, and shook up the third with depth charges in an action that will win the DSC for Lieut. Easton and commendations for the crew.
HMCS Sackville is the last of Canada’s 123 corvettes, one of many convoy escort vessels built in Canada and the United Kingdom during WW II. She is Canada’s oldest fighting warship and has been our official Naval Memorial since 1985. It is very appropriate that the ship is in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as this “East Coast Port” was an important assembly point and destination for convoys during the Battle of the Atlantic.
Watch our video to learn about the ship’s incredible story!
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Thanks for sharing the link and the video. Boy, that’s a tiny little ship isn’t it? I have been seasick a few times in my life and it is no fun. I can’t imagine experiencing it on the North Atlantic, with ice coating every surface and U-Boats launching torpedoes at your vessel. I guess one gets acclimated to the conditions but those were some tough sailors.