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Record information – Brief [Duties and Life Aboard HMCS Skeena and HMCS Saguenay]
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1936/1939 ?Item number (ISN):183636Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:CROCKER, Michael J.Accession:1991-0281Media:FilmProduction date:1936/1939 ?Description:Amateur film of HMCS Saguenay (D79) and HMCS Skeena (D59) on cruise and training in the Caribbean. Filming appears to be from and aboard the destroyer Skeena. Nassau, Bahamas, baseball and cricket game, whaleboat races. Kingston, Jamaica, sugarcane, harbour, schooners at quayside. A tug tow at sea. Freighter in light ice. A cruiser, escorts the Empress of Australia and Skeena and Saguenay join the royal tour of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth as they arrive in Quebec on May 17, 1939. Mounted Hussars and police motorcycles escort the royal couple. Royal Canadian Navy Guard of Honour. Chief Petty Officer [Lang]. Whaler and war canoe races, recovering a dory, aboard ship on deck. Boxing beside the torpedo tubes. In harbour, Sunderland flying boat, [Halifax].Language:SilentNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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