HMCS Sackville, The last WWII flower class Corvette in existence.

The Sackville was built in Canada during the Second World War. She was one of the many Corvettes that our Navy had during the war, and Corvettes quickly became the workhorse of the North Atlantic.
The Sackville was commissioned on the 29th of December in 1941. Serving in well known convoys known as C1,C2, and C3, she escorted convoys from St. John's Newfoundland to Londonderry, Ireland from January 1942 to August 1944.
She was a member of the famous "Barber Pole Group"
The Sackville is credited with one probable kill and ninety minutes later after that U-Boat encounter, she fired at another U-Boat and punctured the U-boat's conning tower.

Now, the Sackville is the very last of the Flower Class Covettes in existence. She can be visited right here in beautiful Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Here are a couple of pictures I took about an hour ago. The sun is out and its nice and warm so I thought I'd go for a walk to pay a quick visit to the Sackville and take some pictures.
Hope you guys enjoy this piece of WWII history.

 

nice shots

 

Thanks..Glad you like them

 

Thanks, visiting Sackville is one of several things I've been meaning to get off my stern and do. Glad to see she's in such lovely shape.

 

I've gone to The Museum of the Atlantic and toured H M C S Sackville several times , my father was a signalman on the corvette H M C S Summerside. Sadly he passed away before the Sackville became a museum ship and a memorial to those who served on them, it is when I missed him the most. I would have loved to have had the chance to walk the decks with him and once more listen to his stories of life on a corvette...