• HMCS Somers Isles was a temporary training facility and stone frigate for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in Bermuda from 1944 to 1945 during the Second...
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  • called the Somers Isles) during the latter part of World War II. From 1944 to 1945, the RCN operated a shore facility named HMCS Somers Isles from the former...
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    Bermuda (redirect from Somers Isles)
    colony, which had been renamed the Somers Isles in commemoration of Sir George Somers, was passed on to the Somers Isles Company. As Bermudians settled the...
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    Convict's Bay, St. George's, using a shore facility named HMCS Somers Isles. HMCS Somers Isles closed in 1945 and Canadian forces left Bermuda (temporarily)...
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    HMCS St. Hyacinthe HMCS Scotian HMCS Shelburne HMCS Somers Isles HMCS Stadacona HMCS Star HMCS Tecumseh HMCS Unicorn HMCS Venture HMCS York Royal Canadian...
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    1814–1816. Bermuda Sea Cadet Corps Established by Canadian naval forces HMCS Somers Isles 1944–1945 NRS Bermuda (renamed CFS Bermuda) (see Royal Navy Daniel's...
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    Naval Base Bermuda (HMS Malabar), Royal Naval Air Station Bermuda, HMCS Somers Isles Royal Navy Dockyard, Gibraltar, HMS Rooke Admiralty House, Halifax...
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    subsequently part of St. George's Garrison until the 1950s, with HMCS Somers Isles, a Royal Canadian Navy training base, established there during the...
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    1939–1945. Royal Air Force, Kindley Field. 1943–1945 Royal Canadian Navy, HMCS Somers Isles. 1944–1945. Royal Canadian Navy, Naval Radio Station Bermuda, Daniel's...
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    vessel returned to Halifax on 31 July 1944, before being attached to HMCS Somers Isles, the Canadian training base at Bermuda until the end of May 1945....
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  • Canadian Navy. HMC Dockyard Esquimalt HMCS Naden HMCS Nanoose Bay HMC Dockyard Halifax HMCS Shelburne HMCS Protector HMCS Comox HMCS Patricia Bay (Patricia...
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    These included Convict Bay, which became a Royal Canadian Naval Base, HMCS Somers Isles, during the Second World War, and the brick building now housing the...
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  • Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War, commissioned as HMCS Somers Isles. The last unit, TS Venture, is located on Ireland Island, the core...
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  • ship. She was based at Digby, Nova Scotia at HMCS Cornwallis and at Bermuda, attached to HMCS Somers Isles. Purchased by the Canadian government in 1946...
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    established in the British colony and Imperial fortress of Bermuda (or The Somers Isles), with construction of Old Military Road and the original Royal Barracks...
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    Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) also established the training facility HMCS Somers Isles. Bermuda became the working-up area where newly commissioned US Navy...
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    escort duties and sailed for the British Isles on 30 November, in company with HMCS St. Croix (ex-McCook) and HMCS Niagara (ex-Thatcher). Operating with...
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  • (minelayer) HMCS Petrel HMCS Premier HMCS Restless HMCS Sable I HMCS Seagull HMCS Sinmac HMCS Stadacona HMCS CD 1 (CD class) HMCS CD 2 (CD class) HMCS CD 3 (CD...
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  • Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), formerly known as the Headmasters' Conference and now branded HMC (The Heads' Conference), is an association...
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    Naval units in Bermuda during the War, a Royal Canadian Navy base, HMCS Somers Isles, operated at the former Royal Naval site at Convict Bay, and four...
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    Naval Air Station Boaz Island (HMS Malabar) Royal Canadian Navy, HMCS Somers Isles. 1944-1945. Royal Canadian Navy, Naval Radio Station Bermuda. 1944-1968...
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    U-boats: U-744 was sunk by HMS Icarus, HMCS St. Catharines, HMCS Fennel, HMCS Chilliwack, HMCS Chaudiere, HMCS Gatineau and Kenilworth Castle on 6 March...
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    the United States Navy, later transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Niagara. Named for Admiral Henry K. Thatcher, she was laid down on 8 June...
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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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  • light carrier (retired) Examples included: HMCS Bonaventure (CVL 22), HMCS Magnificent (CVL 21), and HMCS Warrior (CVL 20) D: World War II escort carrier...
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    having 12 of them. HMCS Ambler (Q11) HMCS Beaver (S10) HMCS Caribou (S12) HMCS Cougar (Z15) HMCS Husky HMCS Lynx HMCS Otter HMCS Raccoon HMCS Stadacona HMS Adventuress...
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    cargo convoys in mid-ocean and escorted them into ports in the British Isles. Between September 1941 and February 1942, the destroyer was refitted at...
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    explores the coast of Great Britain. The British Isles 200 major towns and cities in the British Isles Pathe travelogue, 1960, Journey through Britain...
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  • of shipwrecks of Isle Royale includes more than 25 ships that have been sunk near Isle Royale in Lake Superior (North America). Isle Royale has been an...
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  • Anglesey and Port Erin, which had the world's first submerged repeater, laid by HMCS Iris. The repeater doubled the possible number of circuits on the cable,...
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