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HMCS Restigouche
HMCS Restigouche

Facing the growing threat of war in Europe in the late 1930s, the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) acquired HMCS Restigouche, seen here, and four other destroyers.

The rise of Nazi Germany and increasing international tensions led the Canadian government to increase defence expenditures from their interwar lows. Restigouche, Fraser, St. Laurent, Ottawa, and Assiniboine were all acquired between 1937 and 1939. Similar to HMCS Skeena and HMCS Saguenay, these destroyers joined a small but growing fleet of vessels augmented by domestically built minesweepers.

George Metcalf Archival Collection
CWM 19830100-019



Torpedo Lecture Room, Halifax
The Gun Battery, Halifax
HMCS Patriot Towing the Hydrofoil HD-4, September 1921
HMCS Thiepval in Nazan Bay, Atka Island, in the Aleutians
12-Pounder Cannon, HMCS Thiepval
Coastal Schooner Everett Hays, Alaska
Red Army Guards aboard HMCS Thiepval
HMCS Thiepval Officers with Japanese Naval Lieutenant, Hakodate, Japan
Loading a Propeller, HMCS Thiepval
HMCS Thiepval Crew Members
Bruno the Brown Bear, HMCS Thiepval
Vickers Vulture Flying Boat in Petropavlovsk, Soviet Union
Soviet Soldiers and HMCS Thiepval Lieutenant
HMCS Thiepval's Lieutenants and the British Flight Crew, Petropavlovsk
The End of the Voyage
Launching HMCS Saguenay, July 1930
HMCS Saguenay, 1931
Engineer Captain Thomas C. Phillips
Destroyer Steam Turbine Engine
HMCS Saguenay Entering Willemstad Harbour, Netherlands Antilles, 1934
Torpedo Test Firing
Commissioning of HMCS Fraser, February 1937
HMCS Restigouche
Royal Naval College of Canada Third Term Reunion, 1932