Corvettes: Flower Class

[timlewin]

Presently the piano went back to a song. Windram played a few bars of 'The Road to the Isles', then stopped. It was the signal! When the lilting tune began again every voice in the wardroom started to sing what had now become almost a shanty in Canadian ships, written by a surgeon-lieutenant who had been in the Barber Pole Group:

It's away! Outward the swinging fo'c'sles reel
From the smoking sea's white glare upon the strand. It's the grey miles that are slipping under keel
When we're rolling outward-bound from Newfoundland From Halifax to Newfiejohn or 'Derry's clustered towers By trackless paths where conning towers roll.
If you know another group in which you'd sooner spend your hours,
You've never sailed beneath the Barber Pole! It's the grey seas that are slipping under keel
When you're rolling outward-bound from Newfoundland. So beware! Harbours that berth the Barber Pole,
If you'd keep the situation well in hand,
After grey seas that went slipping under keel
When we wallowed outward-bound from Newfoundland. Drink a whisky or a navy rum or drink a gin-and-lime Let inebriation be your final goal:
Pick a lady you've selected for a short and merry time, There's merry men beneath the Barber Pole!
After grey seas that went slipping under keel
When we wallowed outward-bound from Newfoundland. It's away! Astern of us the Western Islands die,
There's an ocean lies before us to be spanned.
It's the grey seas where sullen icebergs lie
When we're rolling inward-bound to Newfoundland. From Halifax to Newfiejohn or' Derry's clustered towers, By trackless paths where conning towers roll.
If you know another group in which you'd sooner spend your hours, You've never sailed beneath the Barber Pole!
It's the grey seas where sullen icebergs lie
When we're rolling inward-bound to Newfoundland.

[timlewin]

and of course the Barber Pole is as alive today as when Alan Easton wrote about it all those years ago.
tim

[Brian James]

An original colour image of Flower Class Corvette HMCS Regina c 1942...She took part in convoy escort duties during WWII and fought primarily in the Battle of the Atlantic, she was torpedoed and sunk on August 8th 1944 by Type VIIC Submarine U-667 off Trevose Head, 30 crew members were killed.

[Brian James]

Flower Class Corvette HMCS Collingwood pictured off Cornwallis, Nova Scotia in 1941.

[Brian James]

Flower Class Corvette HMCS Trillium pictured at Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1941, she was returned from the RCN in June 1945 and sold for civilian use and scrapped 1971....*Note the Canadian Power Boat Co MTB V-252 in the foreground.

[Pelican]

From: Canadian Naval Memorial Trust <admin2@canadasnavalmemorial.ca>
Date: May 31, 2024 at 4:19:21 PM ADT

** CNMT Campaign Launch
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** Friday, May 31st 2024
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** Good Day Trustee,
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This is an extremely exciting time to be a Trustee with the CNMT. Starting on Monday we will be launching our first branding campaign that will reach coast to coast. As a member of the Trust, we wanted to ensure that you had first glance of the final product.

As you are aware, the Branding Committee, as part of the Communications and Marketing team, has been hard at work since the development of the Strategic Plan. Based on our mission to “Preserve the Ship and Share the Stories” the branding team has created a product that should generate significant interest in the Trust, and ultimately create further support for HMCS Sackville. Our logo has a modern look that is distinct and crisp inspired by Sackville’s crest and the ship’s wartime “dazzle” paint scheme. The audio-visual ads are in black and white, and use Canadian photos. The television ads will launch on the 3^rd June in time for D-Day and will be featured on History Television, National Geographic, CBC News Network, and Smithsonian Channel, until the 21^st of June. Ads will also be featured on Amazon Prime as well as You Tube until the 21^st of July, and 30 second podcast ads on Spotify and Western Media Group. To round off the campaign there will also be social media ads on Facebook and
LinkedIn. Please ensure you “like and share” the ads when you see them!

On top of this our webpage will also get a much needed facelift, and will continue to improve over the next several weeks. The Branding baseline should ensure that many more Canadians are aware of the Trust’s mission to preserve HMCS Sackville and share the stories of how the RCN helped change the world.


** As promised here's the link to our Broadcast ad:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY5rF1kUCGA

** History preserved is history remembered.
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Yours Aye,
Ann Mech
Marketing and Communications Director
communications@cnmt.ca (mailto:communications@cnmt.ca)
902-497-4726

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Above is from Tim.

Sackville's website is https://hmcssackville.ca/

[Pelican]

From Tim: FYI: Today in Halifax before the big CP1 Sailing races this weekend - seen on Facebook - Sacville is there.