2010 is the Centennial of the Royal Canadian Navy! The Navy has a Centenniel website where you can find all sorts of interesting info as well as Centennial events in your area. One section has some interesting trivia on the RCN, and here are a few tidbits. For the rest, go to the source.
#28 After the destroyer HMCS Mackenzie was paid off in 1993, she was painted in USN colours for an episode of the television series “The X-Files”.
#12 Some of the early Canadian-built corvettes crossed the Atlantic with dummy wooden guns mounted on deck in an effort to fool U-boats.
#37 Canada’s Navy in number is ranked 28th in the world. Half the size of the Columbian Navy and one third the size of Chile’s Navy and with the US Navy approximately 40 times the size.
#18 When the Second World War broke out, Canada had just 13 vessels: six destroyers (Saguenay, Skeena, Fraser, Ottawa, Restigouche and St-Laurent), four minesweepers (Comox, Fundy, Gaspé and Nootka/Nanoose), and three auxiliaries (Armentières, Skidegate and Venture).
#19 By the end of the Second World War, the Royal Canadian Navy had grown to become the third largest Allied navy with 434 commissioned vessels including cruisers, destroyers, frigates, corvettes and auxiliaries.
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