HMCS RENARD at Halifax in April 1944. RENARD is an armed yacht. Commissioned into the RCN early in the war and converted from private yacht to escort, until larger escort ships could be built. In this photo she is now working as a torpedo training ship and the torpedo tubes are easily visible on her […]
HMCS OTTER
HMCS OTTER -Animal class armed yacht, was lost on 26 March 1941 from an on board fire and sank, off Halifax. Â At the time of the tragedy, she had a ship’s company of forty-one, nineteen sailors were killed. OTTER was one of fourteen large private yachts acquired by the Royal Canadian Navy to act as […]