Summer 2002

    The Corvettes of the Greater Moncton Corvette Club are parked in front of the H.M.C.S. Sackville (a World War II warship and peacetime auxiliary corvette vessel) the only surviving corvette vessel. This ship, retired after 40 years of service in 1982, was transferred to the Canadian Naval Corvette Trust for restoration to her wartime configuration and is currently open to the public in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The “corvette” vessels (111 were built in Canada for the Royal Canadian Navy and 11 for the United States Navy), were pressed into service as ocean-going escorts for the supply convoys from North America to Britain from the earliest days of W.W.II..