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10-Mar-2022

Minesweepers

Scanned from a photo album from a sailor who served on RCN escort ships on the North Atlantic during WW2
A pair of Bangor class minesweepers in port, the one in the foreground is HMCS Ingonish
The Ingonish was built for the Royal Navy in Vancouver BC and launched in 1941, she was loaned to the Royal Canadian Navy in 1942 where she served on convoy escort on the west coast.
In 1943 she was transferred to the east coast where she served on patrol and escort duties out of Halifax and Sydney, Nova Scotia


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