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 Hills show how small our first boats were in 1914.
(Photo: © Dwayne Hills, 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 Hills show how small our first boats were in 1914.
(Photo: © Dwayne Hills, with permission)
Through a Canadian Periscope, 2nd ed
The new cover for the second edition for publication in the Spring 2014, Dundurn.
My Submarine Books
The Canadian submarine service has overcome repeated attempts to sink it since 1914. Surprise, controversy, political expediency, and naval man-ipulation overflow its ninety-five year history. Heroes, eccentrics and ordinary people populate this extraordinary story, epitomizing the true essence of the service.
Through a Canadian Periscope offers a colourful and thoroughly researched account of Canada's silent service from its unexpected inauguration in British Columbia on the first day of the Great War to the present day.
Dundurn 1995 and 2014
Second edition 2014
Print: Amazon.ca and Amazon.com
Digital: Kindle here (best read on tablets)
Deeply Canadian: New Submarines for a New Millennium is a book for everyone who is interested in naval history. It begins where the success-ful Through a Canadian Periscope ended and tells the story of how Canada nearly lost her submarine service in the 1990s after decades of dedicated duty.
An enjoyable read, Deeply Canadian explains why Canada selected used conventional submarines for the 21st century and follows the bedeviled Victoria class acquisition program against the backdrop of our submarine heritage and naval-political history.
Beacon Publishing 2000 and 2014
Print: 1st edition – out of print
Digital: 2nd edition, Kindle here
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