HMCS Prince David
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HMCS Prince David was one of three Canadian National Steamships passenger liners that were converted for the Royal Canadian Navy, first to armed merchant cruisers at the beginning of Second World War,
HMCS Prince David
CNSS Prince David, Vancouver, British Columbia, August 1930
HMCS Prince David in Bermuda, circa 1941
A second section of infantrymen preparing to go ashore from Prince David off Bernières-sur-Mer, France, 6 June 1944.
HMCS Prince Henry
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HMCS Prince Henry was an armed merchant cruiser and a landing ship infantry during World War II for the Royal Canadian Navy. The ship began service as the ocean liner SS Prince Henry for the Canadian
HMCS Prince David
…ships were a unique part of Canada's war effort: taken out of mercantile service, converted to armed merchant cruisers, two of them (Prince David and Prince Henry) were reconfigured to infantry landing ships and one (Prince Robert) to an anti-aircraft escort; all three ships were paid off at war's end and then…
HMCS Prince Henry as a landing ship infantry at Greenock in May 1944
Assault landing craft leaving HMCS Prince Henry during a training exercise in May 1944
His Majesty's Canadian Ship Prince Henry in Corsica by Alex Colville, 1944