HMCS Malaspina
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HMCS Malaspina was a Canadian government fisheries patrol vessel pressed into service with the Royal Canadian Navy
(RCN) in 1917 and again in 1939 and which therefore saw service during the First World War
and Second World War
.
A sister ship of the CGS Galiano
, the Malaspina was also taken over by the RCN, and both ships mixed civil duties with naval patrol and examination work, including minesweeping training and trials, for much of the war. While Galiano was lost in an October 1918 storm, Malaspina survived the war and returned to fisheries protection work in 1920. In 1939, following the outbreak of the Second World War, Malaspina was again commissioned in the RCN, serving as a patrol and examination vessel
and subsequently as a training ship before being paid off in 1945 and sold for scrap in 1946.
Royal Canadian Navy
The history of the Royal Canadian Navy goes back to 1910, when the naval force was created as the Naval Service of Canada and renamed a year later by King George V. The Royal Canadian Navy is one of the three environmental commands of the Canadian Forces...
(RCN) in 1917 and again in 1939 and which therefore saw service during the First World War
World War I
World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
and Second World War
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
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A sister ship of the CGS Galiano
HMCS Galiano
HMCS Galiano was a Canadian government fisheries patrol vessel pressed into service with the Royal Canadian Navy in 1917. Galiano disappeared in a storm in October 1918, making her Canada's only warship lost during the First World War....
, the Malaspina was also taken over by the RCN, and both ships mixed civil duties with naval patrol and examination work, including minesweeping training and trials, for much of the war. While Galiano was lost in an October 1918 storm, Malaspina survived the war and returned to fisheries protection work in 1920. In 1939, following the outbreak of the Second World War, Malaspina was again commissioned in the RCN, serving as a patrol and examination vessel
Examination vessel
An examination vessel is a vessel used to inspect ships and boats entering a port during wartime.An examination vessel would typically be responsible for examining and verifying all merchant ships and small craft entering or departing a port...
and subsequently as a training ship before being paid off in 1945 and sold for scrap in 1946.