Comments by "Abraham Dozer" (@abrahamdozer6273) on "Flower class - Guide 124" video.

@seasirocco3063 Two River Class Frigates, built at Canadian Vickers in Montreal were delivered to the US Navy where they were "reverse engineered" to provide the template for the American Tacoma Class Destroyer Escort. No American would ever know that.
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The Navy is very good about providing facilities for maintaining Sackville including the use of the Synchrolift which comes out of their meagre budget and above and beyond their mandate.
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They were built by Mercantile Standards, which produced vessels far less robust and impervious to battle damage than purpose designed and built warships. They literally sank like bricks and usually took most or all of their crews with them (see: Cruel Sea).HMCS Alberni was sunk by a torpedo on the 21st of August 1944 with the loss of 59 hands in less than a minute.
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Canadian Corvettes stationed in Esquimalt on Vancouver island also participated in the Pacific war. HMCS Dawson and HMCS Vancouver were part of the anti submarine escort screen for three American battleships at Attu in the Aleutian islands.
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@nathanbrown8680 I was in the Canadian Navy when Sackville was disguised as a loop layer and research vessel. I have to say that we Canadians accidentally preserved a Flower Class Corvette. After the War, you could pick one up from Crown Assets Disposal cheap, cheap and they ended up as whalers, coastal steamers, etc.
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@Gryph01 I was in the Navy n the 1970s and Sackville was part of the auxilliary fleet in Halifax, painted dark blue and dark grey. She had been extensively modified but it was still recognizably a Corvette. I remember saying in a conversation with an Army historian that Canada had "acidentally preserved a WWII Coervtte". That's really what happened, too. p..s. I am involved in such things and there are A LOT of Corvette models about. We need a new museum in Southern Ontaario.
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@F-41927 A few decades ago, I was in Halifax and I took a look at old Sackville tied up right by the modern Frigate Ville de Quebec. You could literally have picked up Sackville and plopped her down in the Flight Deck of Vd Quebec without much of the Corvette overlapping.
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