Second World War
Battle of the Atlantic  - The U-Boats Surrender

With Germany's defeat in May 1945, its U-Boats (submarines) were required to surrender to Allied forces. The Royal Canadian Navy was involved in the surrender of U-Boats in European waters, while U-190 and U-889, surrendering to Canadian forces in the Western Atlantic, were brought to ports in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.

U-190 Pennant

Following the German surrender, U-190 entered service with the Royal Canadian Navy, a role commemorated by this pennant.

Marked "HMC Sub U-190," for "His Majesty's Canadian Submarine," the pennant graphically marked the new ownership of the surrendered submarine, with a bulldog seizing a Nazi eagle by the neck. The navy took U-190 on a tour of eastern Canadian ports before putting it to use for training. In October 1947, the navy sank U-190 as a target during Operation Scuttled, a live-fire naval exercise off Halifax.

Pennant
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