Waskesiu: Canada’s First Frigate
Second Edition
Waskesiu—a Cree word for ‘red deer’—was an anti-submarine warship named after the townsite in Prince Albert National Park. She was Canada’s first frigate, the first of her class to sink a German submarine, and one of the first Canadian warships to visit the Soviet Union during World War II.
Several veterans share some of their most memorable experiences aboard HMCS Waskesiu: witnessing a sister ship sink, near misses by live torpedoes, frigid seas above the Arctic Circle, the battle with the U-boat, and a friendship that developed with a German survivor of the sunken submarine that lasted into the 21st century.
Copyright © 2008–2010 by R. L. Duane Duff. All Rights Reserved.
Table of Contents
- Rebirth of the Frigates
- Evan Griffiths
- Ocean to Ocean
- Tweed Sinks
- Edward (Ted) Wells
- Battle with the U-Boat
- Rescuing the Germans
- Waldemar (Peter) Nickel
- Congratulations
- Murmansk Run
- Near Disaster
- On Patrol in the Channel
- Little Canada
- Final Days of War
- Crew of HMCS Waskesiu
- Cliff Adams
- Gordon Arnold
- George Devonshire
- Dick Esraelian
- Bill Glennon
- Ross Green
- Claude Joyal
- Walter (Bud) Lear
- Fred Lewis
- Dr. Ronald McFarlane
- Bruce Menzies
- Herb Montgomery
- Peter Nares
- Thomas O’Hearn
- Herb Parker
- Edmund Power
- John Reid
- Walter Ritchie
- Charlie Robinson
- Paul Sawchuk
- Allan Tustian
- Roy Venner
- Art Wall
- Vincent Wise
- A Day to Remember
- Reunion at Vancouver
- Reunion at Prinyers Cove
- Reunion at Waskesiu Lake
- Arctic Star
Waskesiu: Canada’s First Frigate (2 ed.)
