HMCS Sackville
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HMCS Sackville is a Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later served as a civilian research vessel. She is now a museum ship located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and the last
HMCS Sackville in October 2006, moored behind the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and restored to her 1944 condition.
HMCS Sackville's summer location to the right, behind the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic at the foot of Sackville Street.
Sackville, Halifax Harbour, October 2006 showing the four-inch deck gun and Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar. The lighthouse-like structure behind the bridge contains the radar.
BL 4-inch Mk IX naval gun
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The BL 4-inch Mk IX naval gun was a British medium-velocity naval gun introduced in 1917 as secondary armament on the Renown-class battlecruisers and Glorious-class "large light cruisers", but which s
HMCS Sackville
…shaft, 2 fire tube Scotch boilers, 1 4-cyl. triple expansion steam engine, 2,750 hp (2,050 kW) Speed 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) Complement 85 Armament 1 BL 4 in (102 mm) Mk.IX gun 1 QF Mk.VIII 2-pounder gun on antiaircraft mount 2 20 mm Oerlikon AA cannon 2 Lewis .303 cal twin machine guns 4 Mk.II depth charge throwers 2 depth…
On Flower-class corvette HMCS Calgary in World War II
Original aft triple mounts on HMS Repulse c. 1916–1917
Coast defence gun and crew at Fort Crosby near Liverpool, UK, August 1940
Cleaning the breech on transport St Essylt, Suez 1942