Identified Photographs
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Unidentified Corvette c1944.
Wanted a ship name & possible dates for the photograph.
Identified as HMCS Alberni (K103), Flower class corvette. Built at Esquimalt & commissioned February 4, 1941. Alberni was torpedoed & sunk by U480, southeast of the Isle of Wight. Fifty-nine of her ship’s company lost their lives.
Catalog No. VR992.45.4
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Image 2.2
HMS
Cossack.
Wanted possible dates for the photograph.
Identified as HMS Cossack during builder’s trials in 1938. Note ensign on Ensign Staff & absence of Spanish Neutrality Patrol Markings (acquired later in year).
Catalog No. VR992.51.1
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Unidentified Royal Navy Town Class Destroyer.
Wanted a ship name & possible dates for the photograph.
Identified as HMCS Hamilton (I24) in December, 1941. Identified by configuration & distinctive camouflage design.(
Catalog No. VR992.79.58
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Image 2.4
U-Boat and Seaboat WW II.
We have no information - any help would be appreciated?
This challenging mystery ship has been identified as a WWI 'H' class submarine. Most were scrapped in the 20's but a few survived in to WWII wherein they were often used in training exercises as U-Boats. Could possibly be CH15, one of Canada's 2 'H' class subs, both paid off in 1922.
Catalog No. VR991.275.4
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Image 2.5
HMS
Sheffield arriving Esquimalt.
What are the possible dates for this photograph?
1948 - 1952
Catalog No. VR991.306.11
Added 23-Jan-2006
Image 2.6
HMS
Churchill (I45).
What are the possible dates for this photograph?
Identified as HMS Columbia (I49)
Catalog No. VR991.317.1
Added 23-Jan-2006
Image 2.7
HMS
Canada.
What are the possible dates for this photograph?
HMS Canada was launched 1913 and purchased for Royal Navy September, 1914. It was sent to the Chilean Navy in 1920 where she was renamed Almirante Latorre.
Catalog No. VR991.319.1
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Image 2.8
HMS
Barham.
What are the possible dates for this photograph?
Was thought to be pre-1939 photograph of the Queen Elizabeth class battleship. New input from another responder allows the date range to be narrowed down significantly: the 2 searchlight platforms on mainmast were removed in the November 1924 to January 1925 refit. Therefore, this is a photograph taken after 1915 & before that refit.
Catalog No. VR991.324.1
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