Canadian Submariners' Dolphins
CC1 & CC2, Canada's first submarines
CC1 underway off Cape Flattery, 1916
Lt. Barney Johnson, RNCVR
Here Johnson is seen with the wavy braid of a volunteer reservist; as a master mariner he was, in fact, a reservist. It took a while in the chaos of the outbreak of war for the mistake to be rectified.
D3, Johnson's and Dougall's commands
Seen here in Gosport, UK.
Willie Maitland-Dougall, 1st Lt, D3
HMCS/Ms CH14 and 15 in 1920
Halifax, NS
Lt. Johnnie Ruse, RCNVR, CO X21- XE8
LCdr F. Sherwood, RCNVR, DSC and Bar
At Buckingham Palace, 1945
HMS/M Spiteful
Sherwood commanded Spiteful in the Far East, out of Freemantle, Australia.
Charioteers
Training took place in a loch in Scotland
Lts Bonnell (L) and Moreton, RCNVR
Julie H. Ferguson and 1st edition
HMS/M Ambush, 6th S/M Squadron
HMCS/M Grilse, Esquimalt, BC
HMCS/M Ojibwa. © Donald R. Gorham
HMCS/M Ojibwa on her final voyage
En route to the Elgin Military Museum in November 2012
Courtesy: Project Ojibwa
Deeply Canadian Cover
Published in print and electronic versions, 2000
Julie H. Ferguson onboard HMS Unseen
At Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
Courtesy: BAE Systems
HMCS/M Victoria arrives in Halifax
Taken before her commissioning ceremony, 2000. (DND?)
HMCS/M Victoria, Bangor, Maine, 2011
HMS Unseen is now HMCS/M Victoria
HMCS Windsor on sea trials, 2011
DND photo: DNPA2012-0220-1
100 years of Canadian submarines
Working scale models of CC2 and HMCS Windsor by Dwayne Hill.
(Image: © Dwayne Hill, with permission)
Through a Canadian Periscope, 2nd ed
The new cover for the second edition for publication in the Spring 2014, Dundurn.
Canadian Submariners' Dolphins
CC1 & CC2, Canada's first submarines
CC1 underway off Cape Flattery, 1916
Lt. Barney Johnson, RNCVR
Here Johnson is seen with the wavy braid of a volunteer reservist; as a master mariner he was, in fact, a reservist. It took a while in the chaos of the outbreak of war for the mistake to be rectified.
D3, Johnson's and Dougall's commands
Seen here in Gosport, UK.
Willie Maitland-Dougall, 1st Lt, D3
HMCS/Ms CH14 and 15 in 1920
Halifax, NS
Lt. Johnnie Ruse, RCNVR, CO X21- XE8
LCdr F. Sherwood, RCNVR, DSC and Bar
At Buckingham Palace, 1945
HMS/M Spiteful
Sherwood commanded Spiteful in the Far East, out of Freemantle, Australia.
Charioteers
Training took place in a loch in Scotland
Lts Bonnell (L) and Moreton, RCNVR
Julie H. Ferguson and 1st edition
HMS/M Ambush, 6th S/M Squadron
HMCS/M Grilse, Esquimalt, BC
HMCS/M Ojibwa. © Donald R. Gorham
HMCS/M Ojibwa on her final voyage
En route to the Elgin Military Museum in November 2012
Courtesy: Project Ojibwa
Deeply Canadian Cover
Published in print and electronic versions, 2000
Julie H. Ferguson onboard HMS Unseen
At Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
Courtesy: BAE Systems
HMCS/M Victoria arrives in Halifax
Taken before her commissioning ceremony, 2000. (DND?)
HMCS/M Victoria, Bangor, Maine, 2011
HMS Unseen is now HMCS/M Victoria
HMCS Windsor on sea trials, 2011
DND photo: DNPA2012-0220-1
100 years of Canadian submarines
Working scale models of CC2 and HMCS Windsor by Dwayne Hill.
(Image: © Dwayne Hill, with permission)
Through a Canadian Periscope, 2nd ed
The new cover for the second edition for publication in the Spring 2014, Dundurn.
Canada's Submarine Heritage 1914–2014
Our First Submarines
CC1 and CC2 were bought by the BC premier, Richard McBride, on the eve of WWI from a yard in Seattle. He spirited them away at dead of night to defend the neglected west coast from German cruisers. The boats were toothless on arrival with no torpedoes or crews ....
Our WW1 Submariners
The RCN hastily recruited two retired RN submariners to man and train raw recruits for CC1 and CC2. Several Canadians became sub-mariners, much to their surprise, and when the Pacific threat evaporated, two sailed for Britain and served with distinction in the RN ....
Our WWII Submariners
The RCN did not field any submarines in WWII, but several Canadians volunteered for the RN and served in all theatres and all types of submarines, including chariots, X-craft, diving units, and even captured U-boats. Several exhibited conspicuous gallantry ....
Our Charioteers
Very few Canadians know about our charioteers, known as human torpedoes, who were the first two recruited in WW2. These men underwent grueling training and hazardous operations to destroy warships behind enemy lines in heavily defended harbours. This is their story ....
Royal Navy A-boats form the Sixth Submarine Squadron in Halifax with 200 Canadians in their crews, and later HMCS/Ms Grilse and Rainbow arrive in Esquimalt from the USN ....
Our O Boats
Canada's Oberon class submarines served our country from the 1960s to the end of the 1990s, initially as ASW clockwork mice for the surface fleet and later operationally in NATO sectors and in interdiction missions for illegal fisheries and drug runners ....
Our Victoria-Class
Canada acquired four surplus RN Upholder-class submarines in the new millennium to replace the Oberons. The author visited the sales team in Britain and the purchasing team in Ottawa, and this story is in Deeply Canadian. The tale from 2000 to the present can be found in the centennial edition of Through a Canadian Periscope.
