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    HMCS Cape Breton was a Royal Canadian Navy Cape-class maintenance ship. Originally built for the Royal Navy as HMS Flamborough Head in 1944, she was transferred...
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  • HMCS Cape Breton is a name used by several ships of the Royal Canadian Navy: HMCS Cape Breton (K350), River-class frigate launched in 1942 HMCS Cape Breton (ARE...
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    Cape Breton Island (French: île du Cap-Breton, formerly île Royale; Scottish Gaelic: Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn; Mi'kmaq: Unamaꞌki) is...
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    HMCS Cormorant (ASL 20) (II) HMCS Cape Breton (ARE 100) (Cape class) HMCS Cape Scott (ARE 101) CFAV Firebird (YTR 561) CFAV Firebrand (YTR 562) HMCS Porte...
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  • Madeleine (K663) (River class) HMCS Cape Breton (K350) (River class) HMCS Capilano (K409) (River class) HMCS Carlplace (K664) (River class) HMCS Charlottetown (K244)...
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    1997: HMCS Saskatchewan (DDE 262) (II) off Snake Island, near Nanaimo, BC at 49°12.96′ N, 123°53.070′ W [5] Sunk October 20, 2001: HMCS Cape Breton (ARE 100)...
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  • Thumbnail for Cape Breton Highlands National Park
    Cape Breton Highlands National Park is a Canadian national park on northern Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. The park was the first national park in...
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    Sydney, Nova Scotia (category Communities in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality)
    the sinking of the Sydney-based HMCS Shawinigan on 24 November 1944 in the Cabot Strait, near Cape North, on Cape Breton Island. Sydney's coal shipping...
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    British and Canadian Flower-class corvettes HMS Dianthus, HMCS Rosthern, HMCS Trillium and HMCS Dauphin and the convoy rescue ship Melrose Abbey. Three...
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    Deer HMCS Sarnia HMCS Stratford HMCS Swift Current HMCS Trois Rivières HMCS Truro HMCS Ungava HMCS Vegreville HMCS Westmount Motor Launches HMC ML Q050...
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    Madeleine (K663) (River class) HMCS Cape Breton (K350) (River class) HMCS Capilano (K409) (River class) HMCS Carlplace (K664) (River class) HMCS Charlottetown (K244)...
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    They were called SC as their departure point was designated Sydney, Cape Breton to avoid confusion with Sydney in Australia. The convoys formed part...
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    Fortress of Louisbourg (category Buildings and structures in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality)
    partial reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Its two sieges, especially that of 1758, were turning...
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    steam engines from the former HMS Flamborough Head (HMCS Cape Breton), which was built here in 1944, are to be preserved as part of the development. 2006...
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    Reports of glass sponges have also been recorded on the HMCS Saskatchewan and HMCS Cape Breton wrecks off the coast of Vancouver Island. Species of zoantharin...
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    organized by HMCS Protector. The one-ship coastal convoy was escorted by HMCS Grandmère, a Bangor-class minesweeper. Controversy surrounded HMCS Grandmère's...
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  • under French control, as did what are now known as Prince Edward Island (then known as Île Saint-Jean) and Cape Breton Island (then known as Île Royale)...
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    Toulouse", and "St. Peters") is a small incorporated village located on Cape Breton Island in Richmond County, Nova Scotia, Canada. This village is located...
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    Sharm El Sheikh and other coastal development. The name literally means "Cape of Muhammad". In this instance, "Ras (Arabic: Head)" means "headland". It...
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    off Pitt Island. HMCS Charlottetown  Royal Canadian Navy 1947 A River-class frigate that was scuttled as a breakwater in Oyster Bay. HMCS Chaudière  Maritime...
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    Scottish immigrants moving to a new home in northern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island following the Highland Clearances of the late 18th and early 19th...
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  • destroyer HMCS Columbia (Lt Cdr SW Davis as Senior Officer Escort), and seven Flower-class corvettes; HMCS Wetaskiwin, HMCS Rosthern, HMCS Baddeck, HMCS Camrose...
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    convoy via Cape Town, South Africa, where she bunkered, before heading north up the East coast of Africa and into the Red Sea. On leaving Cape Town, the...
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  • numbered series of World War II Slow Convoys of merchant ships from Sydney, Cape Breton Island to Liverpool. The convoy left Halifax on 30 January 1942 and picked...
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    and at the Alexander Graham Bell Institute, Cape Breton University, Nova Scotia; major portions of which are available for online viewing. A number of historic...
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    False Bay (category Geography of Cape Town)
    years ago by sailors returning from the east who confused Cape Point and Cape Hangklip, which are somewhat similar in profile when approached from the southeast...
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    numbered series of World War II Slow Convoys of merchant ships from Sydney, Cape Breton Island to Liverpool. The ships departed New York City on 24 October 1942...
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    kilometres (14 mi) offshore halfway between Bream Head and Cape Brett. Uninhabited since the 1820s, they are a nature reserve and popular underwater diving spot...
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  • Thumbnail for HMCS Yukon (DDE 263)
    HMCS Yukon was a Mackenzie-class destroyer that served in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and later the Canadian Forces. She was the first Canadian naval...
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    1971 HMCS Magnificent: Majestic-class carrier in service from 1946 to 1956; returned to Royal Navy and stricken; scrapped in Scotland in 1965 HMCS Bonaventure :...
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