The Corvette Navy

Author : James B. Lamb
Publisher : Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780773761278
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Corvette Navy written by James B. Lamb and published by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escorting ships to war was a crucial part of Canada's involvement in World War II, and the Corvette Navy helped the Royal Canadian Navy in its destruction of 47 U-boats and two Italian submarines. James Lamb was there, and he brings all the action back -- the fighting, the fear, the loneliness, and the camaraderie born of the intense stress that only war can bring.

Author : James Barrett Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781551097701
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Corvette Navy written by James Barrett Lamb and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of World War Two, Britain stood alone, relying on the vital supplies transported by convoy across the North Atlantic. The pride of Hitler's navy, the U-boat wolf-packs, waited there to pick off the slow, unarmed convoys. What stood between the U-boats and their prey were the corvettes. They were small, battered, under-equipped, and in need of repair. They were manned not by naval professionals but by a group of skilled and dedicated amateurs, many still in their teens, their officers often in their mid-twenties. Yet this little band of amateurs took on and beat the German U-boat professionals, and won a vital portion of the war. James B. Lamb, an ex-corvette officer, captures the excitement as well as the inevitable tragedy involved when teenagers who had never even seen the sea were shoved aboard aged and ill-equipped ships and forced to grow up fast. Trapped in a world gone mad, the crews of the corvettes countered with individualism and a unique sense of the absurd. Amid the antics and fear, these men banded together to become a highly efficient fighting unit. They witnessed history and created some history of their own.

Author : James B. Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773732254
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Corvette Navy written by James B. Lamb and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escorting ships to war was a crucial part of Canada's involvement in World War II, and the Corvette Navy helped the Royal Canadian Navy in its destruction of 47 U-boats and two Italian submarines. James Lamb was there, and he brings all the action back -- the fighting, the fear, the loneliness, and the camaraderie born of the intense stress that only war can bring.

Author : James Barett Lamb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333248423
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The corvette navy written by James Barett Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mac Johnston
Publisher : John Wiley and Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780470156988
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Corvettes Canada written by Mac Johnston and published by John Wiley and Sons. This book was released on 2008-08-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian escort group C 2 was comprised of the RCN destroyers Gatineau and Chaudiere, the frigate St. Catharines, the Corvettes Chilliwack and Fennel, and the RN destroyer Icarus. these six and the RN corvette Kenilworth castle combined to sing U-744 in the North Atlantic in a prolonged drama on March 5 and 6, 1944. At 32 hours, this the second-longest successful hunt of the war. Chilliwack able seaman Ralph Chartrand recalls the action: When the sub started to surface, everything that could shoot went into action and we fired all we could. While the crew of U-744 was jumping out of the conning tower, St. Catharines was closing in, but our captain outmanoeuvred Chilliwack in front to make sure that this was our sub. He gave the order "Prepare to ram," but soon the sub was empty, so we didn't ram. We lowered a lifeboat with a boarding party and they proceeded to U-744. While the lifeboat was tied to the sub, some members boarded the sub. then a big wave hit our lifeboat and flipped the crew into the water with the German Sailors. We took 17 prisoners on board. It was almost a major coup. Three lifeboats reached the Type VII C boat. German code books and the cypher machine were seized, but all three seaboats capsized in the rough sea and only one book was saved. All the Canadians were picked up. So, too, were 40 Germans. Icarus then dispatched the unsalable U-744 with a torpedo. Eleven Germans died, including the captain. Praise for Corvettes Canada. "It was the ubiquitous corvette, built in Canada, manned by volunteers and often as not based in a Canadian or Newfoundland port, that carried the burden of our Atlantic war...and few wartime sailors escaped at least some time aboard them. "For the most part, their experiences have gone unrecorded--especially those of the lower deck--and time will soon erase what the enemy and the sea itself could not. Fortunately, Mac Johnston has salvaged the experiences of 250 of these fast-departing corvette veterans, and has drawn their story together into a superb collective memoir of the Atlantic war. "Johnston has woven these memories...and the history of the wartime RCN into a tight fabric, one that is both entertaining and extremely valuable. If you have never read anything on the Canadian navy's part in the Battle of the Atlantic, start with this one; if you've read everything that's already available, you will find this one a gem." --Marc Milner, University of New Brunswick "I like your presentation. It's right from the horse's mouth so to speak. It is so authentic, I say it is a classic. It's as true a story as can be told. Corvette men who read your book, contributors or not, will marvel at your format and will live again the tortures of the Atlantic, the friendship of shipmates, the action stations alarm bell and the roar of depth changes... "Your book proves that these Corvette men were tough to stand the day-to-day tensions, rough seas, dangers and the boredom that was part of their sea life. You have done a wonderful story." -- Leo McVarish, HMCS Alberni, Winnipeg, Man.

Author : Kerry Hodges
Publisher : Seabooks Press
ISBN 13 : 0648985121
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book HMAS Castlemaine written by Kerry Hodges and published by Seabooks Press. This book was released on 2121-08-19 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-six Australian corvettes went to war in the 1940s. Thirty years later most had been scrapped, and the hulk that was once HMAS Castlemaine was also heading for the breaker's yard. Then in 1973 the Maritime Trust of Australia came to the rescue, and its volunteers took Castlemaine home to her birthplace of Williamstown, Victoria. Over decades they restored her wartime configuration, and today maintain the heritage-registered corvette. HMAS Castlemaine, still afloat, tells her story of conflict in the Pacific - and of the young men who confronted its dangers with courage, hard work and good humour.

Author : John Lambert
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783469609
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Flower Class Corvettes written by John Lambert and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to creating models of the World War II warship, featuring history on the ship as well as crafting tips. The “ShipCraft” series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeler through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring color profiles, highly detailed line drawings, and scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references—books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites. This volume includes all the features of the regular series, but the extent has been doubled to include far more detailed drawings of a class of ship that was built in huge numbers and in many variations. Mainstay of the Atlantic battle against the U-boats, Flower class corvettes were used by the British, Canadian, French, and U.S. Navies. “An excellent guide to an important ship in the Second World War, for modeler and maritime enthusiasts alike.” —The Nautical Magazine

Author : Kenneth MacPherson
Publisher : St. Catharines, Ont. : Vanwell Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9781551250526
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Corvettes of the Royal Canadian Navy 1939-1945 written by Kenneth MacPherson and published by St. Catharines, Ont. : Vanwell Pub.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated history of the WWII Canadian Corvette is a comprehensive account of the class.

Author : John McKay
Publisher : Anova Books
ISBN 13 : 9780851779751
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Flower Class Corvette Agassiz written by John McKay and published by Anova Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the renowned Anatomy of the Ship series, this is a unique description of one of the most famous of all escort vessels.

Author : Chris Howard Bailey
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Royal Naval Museum Book of the Battle of the Atlantic written by Chris Howard Bailey and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a series of 20 oral history interviews with the men who served in the 'Flower' class corvettes during the Battle of the Atlantic. Discussions covered recruitment, training and structure of the crews, the pattern of the convoys, and the general conditions on board, highlighting the stress and anxieties experienced by the crew.